Morwenna Hoeks



Employment & Affiliations

2025-2027 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Institute for Cognitive Science, Universität Osnabrück.
2024-2025 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Cognitive Science, Universität Osnabrück.

Education

2023 PhD in Linguistics. University of California Santa Cruz
2018 MSc in Logic. Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam.
2016 BA in Linguistics. Radboud University Nijmegen.
2015 BA in Philosophy. Radboud University Nijmegen.

Publications

2025 M. Hoeks, A. Rysling and M. Toosarvandani. Discourse representations guide alternative set activation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition. [pdf]
M. Hoeks, M. Toosarvandani, and A. Rysling. How to compute a focus: Evidence from incremental processing. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 3. [pdf]
2024 T. Schmitz, J. Winkowski, M. Hoeks, J. Dotlačil and R. Nouwen. Semantic accessibility and interference in pronoun resolution. Glossa Psycholinguistics. [pdf]
2023 M. Hoeks, M. Toosarvandani and A. Rysling. Processing of linguistic focus depends on contrastive alternatives. Journal of Memory and Language. [pdf]
M. Hoeks. comprehending focus / representing contrast. UC Santa Cruz PhD Thesis. [pdf]
2022 M. Hoeks, J. Pesetsky, D. Özyıldız and T. Roberts. Event plurality and quantifier scope across clause boundaries. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 32. [pdf]
2021 M. Hoeks The role of focus marking in disjunctive questions: A QUD-based approach. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 30. [pdf]
2019 M. Hoeks and F. Roelofsen. Coordinating questions: The scope puzzle. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 29.[pdf]
M. Hoeks. Focus alternatives in alternative questions. Proceedings of the European Summer School for Logic, Language and Information.[pdf]
2018 M. Hoeks. Coordinating questions. Master of Logic Thesis Series. [pdf]