<span style='color: #B57EDC;'>Yifan Wu</span>

Yifan Wu

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2nd-year PhD student in Ling @ Cornell, psycholing, comp ling, and semantics/pragmatics.

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publications

Edited Volumes

:scroll: Proceedings of the 34th Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 2024). University of Rochester.

Conference Proceedings

:bookmark_tabs: Yifan Wu and Helena Aparicio (2025). Meaning adaptation in the discourse dynamics of imprecision. Proceedings of the 47th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2025). Paper. (13.8% oral).
:bookmark_tabs: Yifan Wu and Helena Aparicio (2025). Disagreements do not automatically raise the standard of precision. Proceedings of the 3rd Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM 2024), 3, 435–446. Paper. (14.7% oral).

talks

Conference Posters

:clipboard: Presenter: Yifan Wu. First-person metalinguistic disagreements update the standard of precision, both up and down. In the 35th Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 2025), Forthcoming in May, 2025. Poster (12.6% accept).
:clipboard: Presenter: Yifan Wu. Disagreements do not automatically raise the standard of precision. In the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 2024), May, 2024. Poster.

Conference Talks

:microphone: Presenter: Yifan Wu. Meaning adaptation in the discourse dynamics of imprecision. In the 47th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2025), Forthcoming in Jul, 2025. Talk (13.8% oral).
:microphone: Presenter: Yifan Wu. Disagreements do not automatically update the standard of precision. In the 3rd Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM 2024), Jun, 2024. Plenary talk (14.7% oral).

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