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alex.goebel [at] st-hughs [dot] ox.ac.uk

Hi!

Starting in October, I’ll be a Stipendiary Lecturer at Oxford University.

I have held previous positions at the University of Manchester, Princeton University and McGill University. I received my PhD from the Linguistics Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with a dissertation on the role of Focus-sensitivity for a typology of presupposition triggers, chaired by Lyn Frazier.

My main research areas are psycholinguistics and semantics/pragmatics, with a focus on discourse processing. Specific topics I am currently working on or am interested in are presuppositions, discourse structure, and intonation.

I received both my BA and MA degree in German Linguistics from the University of Tübingen (website only in German) under the supervision of Britta Stolterfoht (again only German). I also worked as a research assistant under her for the research project B8 of the Collaborative Research Center 833, investigating the correlation between position and interpretation of adverbials using experimental methods.

You can find some more personal information in the About Me section.

My CV is linked here. (last update: October 2025)

News

4/12/2023: Paper on at least with Michael Wagner accepted at Glossa!
2/15/2022: Two more upcoming presentations at ELM2!
1/25/22: Three poster presentations accepted at HSP 2022: with Michael Wagner on the meaning of the rise-fall-rise contour, with Florian Schwarz on the processing of global and local accommodation, and with Linh Pham and Thuy Bui on reflexives in Vietnamese.
11/15/21: Paper on Focus-sensitivity of presupposition triggers accepted with major revisions at Journal of Semantics!
9/30/20: Thuy Bui and I have received a research grant from Hoa Sen University for a project titled ”A psycholinguistic investigation of context requirements in Vietnamese, English and German”. We plan to conduct experiments investigating presupposition accommodation across these three languages, including a comparison between global and local accommodation, the role of Focus-structure for Focus-sensitive triggers.

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