Teaching
Please see below for recent courses, syllabi, and honors theses advised.
(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 office 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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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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Pragmatics
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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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.
Amy Rosen (expected, 2022)
Nishtha Trivedi (expected, 2022)
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 (honors)
Zehra Husnain (2018): Domain restriction with plural definite descriptions in child language (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]