Laine Stranahan will present her recent work on the effects of working memory load on contrastive inferences (Sedivy, et al., 1999) as well as some plans for developmental research on the effects of speaker unreliability on contrastive inferences (Grodner & Sedivy, 2011). 

Grodner, D., & Sedivy, J. (2011). The effect of speaker-specific information on pragmatic inferences. The processing and acquisition of reference, 2327, 239-72.

Sedivy, J. C., Tanenhaus, M. K., Chambers, C. G., & Carlson, G. N. (1999). Achieving incremental semantic interpretation through contextual representation. Cognition, 71(2), 109-147.