Presentations

Dong, D. T., Luo, Y., Wang, P.-Y.-A., Özyürek, A., & Rubio-Fernández, P. (2025). You prefer this one, 1 prefer yours: Using reference words is harder than vocabulary words for humans and multimodal language models. Talk presented at the PragLM Workshop, part of COLM 2025. Montreal, Canada. 2025-10-10.

Giles, M., Rubio-Fernandez, P., & Mollica, F. (2025). Perceptual discriminability drives overinformative reference, but colour information is special. Talk presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2025). San Francisco, CA, USA. 2025-07-30 - 2025-08-02.

Harris, D., & Rubio-Fernández, P. (2025). Demonstrative choice as evidence of weighted meanings. Talk presented at the 11th Biennial Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG 2025). Cambridge, UK. 2025-09-17 - 2025-09-19.

Rubio-Fernández, P., & Harris, D. (2025). Common ground: Between pragmatics and psycholinguistics. Poster presented at the 11th Biennial Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG 2025), Cambridge, UK.

Rubio-Fernández, P., & Kurumada, C. (2025). The development of informativity: Multimodal referential communication in Spanish and Norwegian preschoolers. Poster presented at the 11th Biennial Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG 2025), Cambridge, UK.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2025). Automatised pragmatics [invited commentary on Victor Ferreira]. Talk presented at the Nijmegen Lectures 2025. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2025-01-07 - 2025-01-09.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2025). Cautionary tales from a pragmatist. Talk presented at the Kick-off Workshop: A Global Developmental Psychology at the Leuphana University. Lüneburg, Germany. 2025-07.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2025). Gricean and Zipfian approaches to communicative efficiency. Talk presented at the Alexey Koshevoy’s PhD Defence Workshop. Marseille, France. 2025-09-25.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2025). Referential efficiency as speaker-listener coordination [plenary talk]. Talk presented at the 1er Encuentro de Lingüística Experimental. Ciudad de México, México. 2025-06-16 - 2025-06-20.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2025). The cognitive trinity of common ground. Talk presented at the Workshop: Background Beliefs in the Construction of Meaning. Tübingen, Germany. 2025-01-09 - 2025-01-10.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2025). The cognitive trinity of common ground. Talk presented at Grammar & Cognition Colloquium at the Radboud University. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2025-04.

Stenseth, I. B., Semenova, K., Rubio-Fernández, P., Horton, W. S., Lehtonen, M., & Long, M. (2025). Does language experience (and EF) shape pragmatic competence over the adult lifespan?. Poster presented at the 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15), San Sebastian, Spain.

Suwal, U., Morris, B., Lin, Q., Rubio-Fernández, P., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2025). Speakers strategically adjust their descriptions based on perceived memorability. Poster presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2025), San Francisco, CA, USA.

Long, M., & Rubio-Fernández, P. (2024). Beyond typicality: Lexical category affects the use and processing of color words. Poster presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2024), Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Ronderos, C. R., Zhang, Y., & Rubio-Fernandez, P. (2024). Weighted parameters in demonstrative use: The case of Spanish teens and adults. Poster presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2024), Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Rubio-Fernández, P., Long, M., & Özyürek, A. (2024). Psychological proximity and spatial distance guide Turkish demonstrative choice. Poster presented at the Highlights in the Language Sciences Conference 2024, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Rubio-Fernández, P., Long, M., Shukla, V., Bhatia, V., & Mahapatra:, A. (2024). Multimodal communication in newly sighted children: An investigation of the relation between visual experience and pragmatic development. Poster presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2024), Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Rubio-Fernández, P., Long, M., & Özyürek, A. (2024). Psychological proximity guides multimodal communication in interactive settings. Poster presented at the 30th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP 2024), Edinburgh, Scotland.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2024). Demonstratives: From acquisition and interaction to language change. Talk presented at the Philosophy Workshop on Genre and Conversation. Reykjavik, Iceland. 2024-06.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2024). Face orientation in newly sighted children. Talk presented at the Meeting of the Sinha Lab for Developmental Research, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, MIT. Cambridge, MA, USA. 2024-10.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2024). Referential efficiency as speaker-listener coordination. Talk presented at the 2024 CORE Workshop: Unpacking Efficient Communication. Universidad Pompeu Fabra. Barcelona, Spain. 2024-04-18 - 2024-04-19.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2024). Referential efficiency as speaker-listener coordination. Talk presented at the Meeting of the Predictive Brain Lab. Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2024-09.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2024). The cognitive trinity of common ground. Talk presented at the Meeting of the Social Minds Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University. Budapest, Hungary. 2024-10.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2024). The cognitive trinity of common ground. Talk presented at the Communicative Mind Group, Philosophy Department, Warwick University. Coventry, UK. 2024-12.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2024). The cognitive trinity of common ground. Talk presented at the Pragmatic Reading Group at the University College London. London, UK. 2024-12.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2024). The cognitive trinity of common ground. Talk presented at the Meeting of the Computational Social Cognition Lab, Psychology Department, Yale University. New Haven, CT, USA. 2024-10.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2024). The cognitive trinity of common ground. Talk presented at the Developmental Group, Psychology Department, University of Göttingen. Göttingen, Germany. 2024-11.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2024). The cognitive trinity of common ground. Talk presented at the CUNY CogSci Series, CUNY Graduate Center. New York, NY, USA. 2024-10-18.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2024). The cognitive trinity of common ground. Talk presented at the Workshop Perspectives on Communication. University of Oslo. Oslo, Norway. 2024-06-11.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2024). The cognitive trinity of common ground. Talk presented at the Language Emergence and Evolution (LEE) Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2024-11-26.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2024). The cognitive trinity of common ground. Talk presented at the Northwestern’s Cognitive Science Series, Northwestern University. Chicago, IL, USA. 2024-10.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2024). The role of language and perception in referential communication. Talk presented at the Colloquium of the Linguistics Association. Tarbiat Modares University. Virtual. 2024-03.

Bhatia, V., Shukla, V., Mahapatra, A., Long, M., & Rubio-Fernandez, P. (2023). Multimodal referential communication in newly-sighted children: A test of adaptive pragmatics. Poster presented at Many Paths to Language (MPaL 2023), Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Long, M., Özyürek, A., & Rubio-Fernández, P. (2023). Psychological proximity guides multimodal communication. Poster presented at the 8th Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN 2023), Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Long, M., Özyürek, A., & Rubio-Fernandez, P. (2023). The role of pointing and joint attention on demonstrative use in Turkish. Poster presented at the 1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium (MMSYM 2023), Barcelona, Spain.

Ronderos, C. R., & Rubio-Fernandez, P. (2023). Different fixation patterns for different adjective types in English, Hindi and Hungarian. Poster presented at the 29th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP 2023), Donostia–San Sebastián, Spain.

Rubio-Fernandez, P., & Kurumada, C. (2023). The development of informativity: Multimodal referential communication in Spanish and Norwegian preschoolers. Talk presented at Many Paths to Language (MPaL 2023). Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2023-10-25 - 2023-10-27.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2023). Common ground as a naïve model of rational memory. Talk presented at the Colloquium of the Centre for Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, UK. 2023-12.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2023). Cultural evolutionary pragmatics: Investigating the co-evolution of language and social cognition. Talk presented at the New York Philosophy of Language Workshop, New York University. New York, NY, USA. 2023-10-23.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2023). Evolutionary perspectives. Talk presented at the Workshop Perspectives on Perspectives in Language, Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ, USA. 2023-10.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2023). Face orientation in newly-sighted children. Talk presented at the Language in Autism Group Meeting, University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2023-12.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2023). The cognitive trinity of common ground. Talk presented at the Research Seminar of the Linguistics Department, Stockholm University. Stockholm, Sweden. 2023-11.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2023). The cognitive trinity of common ground. Talk presented at the Theory of Language Meeting, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2023-06-16.

Rubio-Fernández, P. (2023). The cognitive trinity of common ground. Talk presented at the Iceland Communication Workshop 2023. Reykjavik, Iceland. 2023-06-21 - 2023-06-23.

Woensdregt, M., Jara-Ettinger, J., & Rubio-Fernandez, P. (2022). Language universals rely on social cognition: Computational models of the use of this and that to redirect the receiver’s attention. Talk presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2022). Toronto, Canada. 2022-07-27 - 2022-07-30.