See my detailed CV (last updated August 2026) and the complete publications page.

Educational Background

2024 - present: Ph.D. candidate in General Linguistics at the University of Tübingen

2019 - 2022: M.A. in German Linguistics (with a focus on Psycholinguistics) at the University of Tübingen

  • Master thesis: Subjektivität vs. Diskriminatorische Stärke: Eine experimentelle Studie zu Adjektivenreihenfolgenpräferenzen (Subjectivity vs. Discriminatory Strength: An Experimental Study of Adjective Ordering Preferences).

2016 - 2019: B.A. in German Studies (with a focus on Linguistics) at Nanjing University

  • Bachelor thesis: Eine kontrastive Studie zu kausalen komplexen Sätzen im Chinesischen und Deutschen (A Contrastive Study of Causal Complex Sentences in German and Chinese).

Manuscript Under Review

  • Fausto Carcassi*, Hening Wang*, Chris Cummins, Michael Franke (2026). What guides utterance production and interpretation in argumentative language use? Submitted to Cognition. (* equal contribution)

Publications

  • Hening Wang, Daniel Lassiter, Michael Franke (2026). When correlation means causation: Pragmatic factors modulate causal implicatures in decision-making contexts. Forthcoming in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. paper · poster

  • Fausto Carcassi, Hening Wang, Chris Cummins, Michael Franke (2026). What guides utterance choice in argumentative language use? Forthcoming in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. paper

  • Polina Tsvilodub*, Hening Wang*, Sharon Grosch, Michael Franke (2024). Predictions from language models for multiple-choice tasks are not robust under variation of scoring methods. arXiv:2403.00998. (* equal contribution)

  • Hening Wang, Leixin Zhang, Ondřej Bojar (2024). Human and machine: Language processing in translation tasks. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2024), 243–250.

  • Qi Yu, Fabian Schlotterbeck, Hening Wang, Naomi Reichmann, Britta Stolterfoht, Regine Eckardt, Miriam Butt (2024). Ad hoc compounds for stance detection. MWE-UD @ LREC-COLING 2024, 231–242.

  • Fabian Schlotterbeck, Hening Wang (2023). An incremental RSA model for adjective ordering preferences in referential visual context. Society for Computation in Linguistics, 6(1), 121–132. paper

  • Nadine Balbach, Fabian Schlotterbeck, Hening Wang, Oliver Bott (2022). Disentangling semantic empty-set effects in quantifier comprehension from simple associations: Processing evidence from exceptive-additives. Amsterdam Colloquium 2022. paper

Poster and Presentations

  • Hening Wang, Yuhan Guo, Michael Franke (2026). From controversy to consensus: Modelling community-sensitive common ground management in German discourse markers. Talk accepted at Linguistic Evidence 2026, Mannheim. Abstract forthcoming.

  • Fausto Carcassi, Hening Wang, Chris Cummins, Michael Franke (2026). What guides utterance choice in argumentative language use? Oral presentation, CogSci 2026, Rio de Janeiro. paper

  • Hening Wang, Daniel Lassiter, Michael Franke (2026). When correlation means causation: Pragmatic factors modulate causal implicatures in decision-making contexts. Poster, CogSci 2026, Rio de Janeiro. paper · poster

  • Hening Wang, Fabian Schlotterbeck, Michael Franke (2025). Incremental RSA model explains adjective ordering preferences by communicative efficiency across contexts. Poster, Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025, Utrecht University.

  • Hening Wang, Fabian Schlotterbeck, Michael Franke (2025). Bayesian Inference with Rational Speech Act models in Numpyro. Methodology Lightning Talk, the 8th meeting of Society for Computation in Linguistics (SciL) 2025, University of Oregon.

  • Hening Wang*, Jia Ren*, Michael Franke (2025). Interpreting plural predication in visual contexts: Cover-based resolution of NP structures. Poster, 11th Biennial Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG 2025), University of Cambridge; also presented at AMLaP 31 - The Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Charles University. (* equal contribution)

  • Hening Wang, Fabian Schlotterbeck (2024). Vagueness and competition in spatial language: Rating and self-paced reading data. Poster, AMLaP 30 - The Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, University of Edinburgh.

  • Hening Wang, Fabian Schlotterbeck (2024). Exploring communicative efficiency in adjective ordering preferences in visual referential contexts: An experimental and computational approach. Poster, CORE Project Workshop “Unpacking Efficient Communication”, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. poster

  • Hening Wang, Fabian Schlotterbeck (2023). A quantitative exploration of adjective ordering preferences with an incremental Rational Speech Acts model. Talk, ESSLLI 2023 Workshop: Procedural and computational models of semantic and pragmatic processes.

  • Hening Wang, Fabian Schlotterbeck (2022). Even with subjective adjective precedence, precedence precedes dominance. Poster, AMLaP 28 - The Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, University of York. video · poster · abstract