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Publications

2026

​​​Grigoroglou, M., & Ganea, A. P. (2026). Revisiting the acquisition of conditionals: Children’s and adults’ expression of hypothetical thought. Journal of Child Language. 1–34, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000926100762

Rognan, H., Grigoroglou, M., & Bhattasali, S.  (2026). Investigating event orders in LLMs: Insights from English, Norwegian, and Greek temporal connectives. In G. Boleda, I. Dautriche, M. Maldonado, C. Saldana and T. Torrent (Eds.), Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 44-51). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

2025

Papafragou, A., & Grigoroglou, M. (2025). Pragmatics and Theory of Mind. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 380, 20230502. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0502

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2024

Grigoroglou, M., & Papafragou, A. (2024). Informativeness in children’s language use. In P. Karpouzou, D. Aggelatos, C. Dounia, & T. Karavia (Eds.), Ο Περίπλους της Θεωρίας της Λογοτεχνίας. Τιμητικός τόμος για την Άννα Τζούμα [Circumnavigating Literary Theory.  Festshrift for Professor Anna Tzouma] (pp. 833-845). Athens, Greece: Gutenberg. 

Grigoroglou, M., Landau, B., & Papafragou, A. (2024). The Ins and Outs of spatial language: Pragmatics shapes early-developing, cross-linguistically robust encoding patterns. Journal of Memory and Language, 138, 104545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2024.104545

 

Raihert, C., & Grigoroglou, M. (2024). Metaphor Comprehension in Preschoolers: A Pragmatic Skill. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 5295-5301). https://escholarship.org/content/qt5t83h0kb/qt5t83h0kb.pdf

Moser, C., Tarakçı, B., Ünal, E., & Grigoroglou, M. (2024). Multimodal Description of Instrument Events in Turkish and English. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 341-348). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/31h4s3qp

2022

Grigoroglou, M., & Ganea, A. P. (2022). Language as a mechanism for reasoning about possibilities. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 20210334. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0334

 

Grigoroglou, M., & Papafragou, A. (2022). Contributions of pragmatics to word learning and interpretation. In A. Papafragou, J. C. Trueswell & L. R. Gleitman (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of The Mental Lexicon (pp. 437-453). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198845003.013.21

 

2019

Grigoroglou, M., & Papafragou, A. (2019). Children’s (and adults’) production adjustments to generic and particular listener needs. Cognitive Science, 43(10), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12790

Papafragou, A., & Grigoroglou, M. (2019). The role of conceptualization during language production: evidence from event encoding.Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34(9), 1117–1128. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2019.1589540

Grigoroglou, M., Chan S., & Ganea, A. P. (2019). Toddlers’ understanding and use of verbal negation in inferential reasoning search tasks. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 183, 222–241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.02.004

Grigoroglou, M., & Papafragou, A. (2019). Interactive contexts increase informativeness in children’s referential communication.  Developmental Psychology, 55(5), 951-966. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000693

Grigoroglou, M., Johanson, M., & Papafragou, A. (2019). Pragmatics and spatial language: The acquisition of front and back.  Developmental Psychology, 55(4), 729-744. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000663

Grigoroglou, M., & Papafragou, A. (2019). The development of pragmatic abilities. In K. Scott, B. Clark & R. Carston (Eds.), Relevance Theory: Pragmatics and Interpretation (pp. 102-112). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108290593.010

Grigoroglou, M., & Papafragou, A. (2019). Spatial Terms. In C. Cummins & N. Katsos (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Experimental  Semantics and Pragmatics (pp. 113–123). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198791768.013.18    

Grigoroglou, M., & Papafragou, A. (2019). Annotated bibliography - Acquisition of Pragmatics. In M. Aronoff (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies. Online edition: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199772810-0240

2017

Grigoroglou, M., Johanson, M., & Papafragou, A. (2017). Pragmatic aspects in spatial language acquisition and use across languages.  In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. J. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2132-2137). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. 

2016

Grigoroglou, M., & Papafragou, A. (2016). Are children flexible speakers? Effects of typicality and listener needs in children’s event descriptions. In Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & Trueswell, J.C. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 782-787). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

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