Deshik Iyengar, Vaishnavi Elanchezhian, Dr. Syrett, and Maya Brisman celebrate the end of the academic year at the Annual Linguistics Undergraduate Celebration. Deshik received the Academic Excellence Award, Vaishnavi received … Read More
Vaishnavi successfully defended her senior honors thesis, and earned both Highest Honors and the Department of Linguistics Award for Research Excellence! Prior to this, she presented her work at an … Read More
Dr. Syrett presented two posters at BUCLD 49. She presented one with her collaborator Dr. Athulya Aravind (MIT) on children’s and adults’ categorization and quantification of partial objects, and another … Read More
Dr. Syrett and two former students (Joy Lu, a former undergraduate honors thesis student, and Kyle Parrish, a former graduate student from Spanish & Portuguese) have published a paper stemming … Read More
Dr. Syrett and her former graduate student Meg Gotowski (previously a post-doc at MIT, and a visiting Professor at Pomona College, now a visiting professor at William & Mary) have … Read More
Dr. Syrett presented a paper “Syntactic structure supports the acquisition of emotion and mental state adjectives” with her collaborator Dr. Misha Becker (UNC, Chapel Hill) and a poster “Using bounds … Read More
Congratulations to our graduating seniors! Dr. Syrett and Hanna Murphy at the Honors College Convocation
Dr. Kristen Syrett and her collaborator Dr. Misha Becker (UNC) have published the first paper from their ongoing research program on the acquisition of emotion and mental state adjectives. Their … Read More
Hanna Murphy successfully defended her honors thesis, “Linguistic support for the acquisition of emotion adjectives.” Her thesis and her defense earned her highest honors and the department award for Research … Read More
Meg Gotowski returned to Rutgers in May 2023 to get hooded at the School of Graduate Studies Convocation. Congratulations, Dr. Gotowski!