Milica DENIC
Milica Denic
Maître d’enseignement et de recherche
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Milica Denić is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Geneva. In her research, she integrates theoretical work, psycholinguistic experiments, and computational modeling to address questions at the intersection of semantics, pragmatics, and cognitive science. One line of her work explores the interface between language and reasoning, examining phenomena such as implicatures and polarity items. Another line of her work investigates the structure of semantic categories across languages, and cognitive and communicative biases that may shape them.
Milica Denić holds a PhD in Cognitive Science from École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Prior to joining the University of Geneva, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation in Amsterdam and at Tel Aviv University.
Selected publications:
Denić, Milica and Jakub Szymanik. (2024). "Recursive numeral systems optimize the trade-off between lexicon size and average morphosyntactic complexity." Cognitive Science
Denić, Milica. (2023). "Probabilities and logic in implicature computation: Two puzzles with embedded disjunction." Semantics and Pragmatics
Denić, Milica, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld and Jakub Szymanik. (2022). "Indefinite pronouns optimize the simplicity/informativeness trade-off." Cognitive Science
Denić, Milica, Vincent Homer, Daniel Rothschild, and Emmanuel Chemla. (2021). "The influence of polarity items on inferential judgments." Cognition
Denić, Milica, Emmanuel Chemla, and Lyn Tieu. (2018). "Intervention effects in NPI licensing: a quantitative assessment of the scalar implicature explanation." Glossa: a journal of general linguistics