Bob van Tiel

Bob van Tiel is a Senior Researcher affiliated with ZAS Berlin. His work focuses on experimental pragmatics, particularly scalar implicatures, quantifier usage, and probabilistic modeling of language processing. He has presented at numerous international conferences, including AMLaP, ELM, CUNY, and Sinn und Bedeutung, often collaborating with scholars like Elizabeth Pankratz, Chao Sun, and Michael Franke.

Research interests include understanding how polarity affects scalar inference processing, pragmatic impairment in autism, and the relationship between quantifier production and probabilistic reasoning. His projects, such as the DFG-funded MUQTASP, explore semantic and pragmatic modeling in both typical and atypical speakers.