Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas

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Email c.r.ronderos@ifikk.uio.no

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Visiting address Blindernveien 31 Georg Morgenstiernes hus 0313 Oslo

Postal address Postboks 1020 Blindern 0315 Oslo

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Academic interests

I am interested in extracting testable empirical predicitons from pragmatic theories. The ultimate goal of my research is to help establish links between algorithmic- and computational-level explanations for how we understand language in context. I am particularly interested in studying highly context-sensitive forms of pragmatic language use such as figurative language (irony, metaphor, hyperbole, imprecision), adhoc implicatures and expressive adjectives. I want to understand the cognitive mechanisms and representations involved in processing these phenomena, as well as how their comprehension develops with age.

Courses taught

Spring 2022 (Oslo)

Introduction to Langauge Development

Fall 2021 (Oslo):

HON2120 - Introduction to interdisciplinary research methods for honours students

Older Classes (Berlin, Wrocław)

Context effects in language processing: Designing and conducting experimental research
The Psycholinguistics of Figurative Language
Introduction to Linguistics
The language of advertisement
Statistics with R for Linguists

Background

PhD in Experimental psycholinguistics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

M.Sc. in (Experimental) Linguistics at the University of Potsdam

B.A. in German Linguistics and Historical Linguistics from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Awards

XPRAG.it Young Researcher Award, Xprag.it in Cagliari, Italy

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Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo; Tomlinson, John M. & Noveck, Ira (2023). When Irony is Faster Than Its Literal Control: The Role of Mindreading During Irony Comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition. ISSN 0278-7393. doi: 10.1037/xlm0001219.
Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo & Domaneschi, Filippo (2023). Anticipating the Damn Referent: How Comprehenders Rapidly Retrieve the Speaker's Attitude When Processing Negative Expressive Adjectives. Cognitive Science. ISSN 0364-0213. 47(5). doi: 10.1111/cogs.13295.
Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo & Noveck, Ira (2023). Slowdowns in scalar implicature processing: Isolating the intention-reading costs in the Bott & Noveck task. Cognition. ISSN 0010-0277. 238. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105480.
Pescuma, Valentina N.; Serova, Dina; Lukassek, Julia; Sauermann, Antje; Schäfer, Roland & Adli, Aria [Show all 43 contributors for this article] (2023). Situating language register across the ages, languages, modalities, and cultural aspects: Evidence from complementary methods. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 13. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.964658. Full text in Research Archive
Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (2023). Suppression of literal meaning in single and extended metaphors. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 14. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1135129. Show summary
Within Relevance Theory, it has been suggested that extended metaphors might be processed differently relative to single metaphoric uses. While single metaphors are hypothesized to be understood via the creation of an ad hoc concept, extended metaphors have been claimed to require a switch to a secondary processing mode, which gives greater prominence to the literal meaning. Initial experimental evidence has supported a distinction by showing differences in reading times between single and extended metaphors. However, beyond potential differences in comprehension speed, Robyn Carston’s ‘lingering of the literal’ account seems to predict qualitative differences in the interpretative mechanisms involved. In the present work, we test the hypothesis that during processing of extended metaphors, the mechanisms of enhancement and suppression of activation levels of literal-related features operate differently relative to single metaphors. We base our work on a study by Paula Rubio-Fernández, which showed that processing single metaphors involves suppressing features related exclusively to the literal meaning of the metaphoric vehicle after 1000 milliseconds of encountering the metaphor. Our goal was to investigate whether suppression is also involved in the comprehension of extended metaphors, or whether the ‘lingering of the literal’ leads to continued activation of literal-related features, as we take Carston’s account to predict. We replicate existing results, in as much as we find that activation levels of literal-related features are reduced after 1000 milliseconds. Critically, we also show that the pattern of suppression does not hold for extended metaphors, for which literal-related features remain activated after 1000 milliseconds. We see our results as providing support for Carston’s view that extended metaphor processing involves a prominent role of literal meaning, contributing towards explicating the links between theoretical predictions within Relevance Theory and online sentence processing.
Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo; Guerra, Ernesto & Knoeferle, Pia (2022). When sequence matters: the processing of contextually biased German verb–object metaphors. Language and Cognition. ISSN 1866-9808. doi: 10.1017/langcog.2022.22. Full text in Research Archive
Khorsheed, Ahmed; Rashid, Sabariah Md; Nimehchisalem, Vahid; Imm, Lee Geok; Price, Jessica & Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo (2022). What second-language speakers can tell us about pragmatic processing. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 17(2). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0263724. Full text in Research Archive

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Helganger, Line Sjøtun; Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo; Köder, Franziska Maria & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (2024). Children's sensitivity to intonational cues in ambiguity resolution.
Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo; Mathisen, Emma Krane; Noveck, Ira A. & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (2023). When children are more pragmatic than adults.
Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (2023). The processing cost of imprecision: A pupillometry study.
Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo; Mathisen, Emma Krane; Noveck, Ira A. & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (2023). When children are more pragmatic than adults: the development of imprecision.
Martin-González, Isabel; Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo; Schroeder, Kristen Frances; Falkum, Ingrid Lossius; Castroviejo, Elena & Vicente, Agustín (2023). Autistic children's novel metaphor comprehension under reduced uncertainty.
Martin-González, Isabel; Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo; Castroviejo, Elena; Schroeder, Kristen Frances; Falkum, Ingrid Lossius & Vicente, Agustín (2023). That child is a grasshopper (because he jumps a lot): children's development of novel metaphor comprehension.
Falkum, Ingrid Lossius; Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo; Torgersen, Henrik Anker Tumert & WIlson, Elspeth (2023). Acquisition of manner implicatures and sense of conventionality in children.
Iversen, Rebecca Kvisler; Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (2023). They are wellies, not shoes: Does children's sensitivity to language norms get weaker with age?
Iversen, Rebecca Kvisler; Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (2023). They are wellies, not shoes: Does children's sensitivity to language norms get weaker with age?
Mathisen, Emma Krane; Allott, Nicholas Elwyn & Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo (2023). Processing single and extended metaphors and similes.
Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo; Mathisen, Emma Krane; Noveck, Ira & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (2023). The development of imprecision.
Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo; Noveck, Ira A. & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (2022). When children are more pragmatics than adults: the development of understanding imprecision.
Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (2022). The literal does linger: Suppression of literal meaning works differently for single and extended metaphors.
Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo; Noveck, Ira A. & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (2021). Imprecise interpretations of English absolute adjectives: Processing cost and effect of context.
Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo (2021). Understanding the relationship between imprecision comprehension and processing effort.
Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo; Falkum, Ingrid Lossius & Noveck, Ira A. (2021). How do we develop imprecise interpretations? An investigation on Norwegian children’s comprehension of contextualized absolute adjectives.
Rodriguez Ronderos, Camilo; Falkum, Ingrid Lossius & Noveck, Ira (2021). Imprecise interpretations of English absolute adjectives: Processing cost and effect of context.

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Pragmatics: Theory & Experiments