Teaching
Please see below for pedagogical activities, honors theses advised, and course syllabi by semester.
(For syllabi of courses taught multiple times, please see most recent versions.)
If you are a student enrolled in a class with me, please consult the course syllabus for student support hours. If you cannot make the designated time, please email me so that we can arrange a time to meet. Please consult the syllabus for helpful advice on correspondence.
If you are a faculty member interested in my teaching portfolio, please contact me for a link to my materials: teaching statement, course evaluations, examples of activities, etc.
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My Language Development students work together in small groups over the course of a semester to create deliverables aimed at community outreach, which help them to synthesize all they’re learned, practice time management and teamwork, and convey this knowledge in an inviting, accessible way to a lay audience.
We promote these beautiful, informative, carefully researched, curated, and edited resources when reaching out to caregivers, preschools, and daycares for our language acquisition research.
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linkHow Can I Understand My Child?
linkHow Caregiver’s Input Can Help
linkInfant-Directed Speech v. Adult-Directed Speech
linkRead our posters and brochures
Infant and Child Directed Speech
resourceSpeech Errors
resourceWord Learning
resourceUnderstanding Your Child’s Speech
resourceMy Language Development (from a child’s perspective)
resourceWe’re on Tumblr!
Anonymous Speechies
Listen to this Podcast
SooTrue Podcast
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If you are interested in working on a senior honors thesis with me or becoming a research assistant in my lab, please see my lab website for more information.
Alison English (2023) (co-advised with Pete Alrenga): Investigating the pragmatic factors licensing but (highest honors, Departmental Research Excellence Award)
Amy Rosen (2022): Communication across modalities: An investigation of co-speech gesture in a lexical suppression task (highest honors, Departmental Research Excellence Award, Henry Rutgers Scholar Award)
Nishtha Trivedi (2022): Prosodic marking of information structure and contrastive focus in autistic adults (Cognitive Science) (highest honors, Henry Rutgers Scholar Award)
Karen Li (2021): A proposal for the meaning of the Mandarin sentence final particle a (highest honors, Henry Rutgers Scholar Award)
Joy Lu (2021): Calling Stella long distance: Free classification of regional United States dialects, international dialects, and Asian Nonnative accents by listeners from a diverse demographic (highest honors)
Nathaniel Serio (2021): Concepts, essences, and mental representation (high honors)
Talia Lang (2020): You called her a what?! Experimental evidence for the expressive and descriptive dimensions of slurs (high honors)
Kathryn Slusarczyk (2020): Can speakers recruit sound symbolic cues in novel Korean ideophones to distinguish manner of motion? (highest honors)
Ilana Torres (2020): “Who’s” right: Accent and accuracy in assessments of object labels and instances of faultless disagreement (high honors, Departmental Research Excellence Award)
Zachary Dau (2019): The linguistic status of emojis (high honors)
Zehra Husnain (2018): Domain restriction with plural definite descriptions in child language (high honors)
Anna Goldin (2017): I suppose that I presuppose: An experimental investigation of factors affecting presupposition projection (high honors)
Laura Simon-Pearson (2017): Assessing truth and knowledge: How children differ from adults in assessment of truth values and speaker knowledge (highest honors, Henry Rutgers Scholar Award) [see also Simon-Pearson Syrett_assessing truth speaker knowledge_18]
Hannah Baker (2013): An experimental investigation of the epistemic effect of ‘algun’ in Spanish language learners
Kirsten Nisula (2012): Perception of prosodic and acoustic cues for sentence disambiguation [see Syrett et al_prosodic disambiguation NELS_14 and Syrett et al_prosodic disambiguation JoL_14]
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Language Development
(Please see previous semesters for sample syllabus.)
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Graduate-Level Qualifying Paper (and Professional Development) Workshop
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Language Development
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Administration and research, not teaching
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Language Development
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Administration and research, not teaching
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Language Development
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Pragmatics
(Please see previous semesters for sample syllabus.)
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Language Development
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Seminar in Language Acquisition (Graduate): Acquisition of Nouns
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Acquisition of Semantics: LSA Summer Institute, UC Davis
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Pragmatics
(Please see previous semesters for sample syllabus.)
Advanced Topics in Cognitive Science: Sound and Meaning
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On sabbatical
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Byrne Seminar: Language Games and Talking Heads
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Linguistics 101: Introduction to the Study of Language
Byrne Seminar: Language Games and Talking Heads (Honors version)
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Semantics III (Graduate): Recent Advances in Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics
Pragmatics
Byrne Seminar: Language Games and Talking Heads
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Semantics in Language Acquisition: Advanced Core Training in Linguistics (ACTL), London
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Linguistics 101: Introduction to the Study of Language
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Linguistics 101: Introduction to the Study of Language
Pragmatics
Byrne Seminar: Language Games and Talking Heads
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