Ilana, Kat, and Talia defend their senior honors thesis work!
The thesis defenses may have been virtual, but these amazing women pulled it off in style! We are so proud of Kathryn Slusarczyk, Ilana Torres, and Talia Lang for successfully … Read More
Kristen Syrett
LDLS goes virtual
We may be socially distancing and quarantined during a global pandemic, but we still find a way to have lab meeting and keep the research going and support each other! … Read More
Morgan and Kristen present at Rutgers-Bochum workshop
Morgan Moyer and Dr. Kristen Syrett each presented their research at the Rutgers-Bochum workshop held March 7-8 at Rutgers University, sponsored by RuCCS.
Our end of semester holiday party!
Lab Holiday selfie! Because we know how to celebrate! (…and work out afterwards!)
BUCLD 44
Meg Gotowski and Dr. Kristen Syrett presented their talk “Investigating the hypothesis space of children’s interpretation of comparatives” at the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 44).
LDLS RAs form a FIGS Powerhouse!
This year five–count them, five(!)–students affiliated with the lab are serving as Peer Instructors for the Rutgers FIGS program! Four current RAs and one previous independent study student are helping … Read More
Morgan Moyer awarded NSF dissertation award
Morgan Moyer, a member of the lab working on her dissertation under the direction of Dr. Syrett, has received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) … Read More
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at XPrag Workshop on Adjectives in Germany
Dr. Syrett gave an invited talk entitled, “Setting the standard and making comparisons in language acquisition” at the XPrag Workshop,” in The semantics and pragmatics of gradable adjectives: Integrating perspectives from … Read More
LDLS at Rutgers SAS Convocation 2019
Dr. Syrett and Taylor Martinez pose for a selfie at the 2019 SAS Convocation at Highpoint Stadium. Dr. Syrett as the Undergraduate Program Director of Linguistics joined the graduating Linguistics … Read More
2019 Undergraduate Research Symposium
The undergraduate research assistants from the lab presented two posters representing the lab’s ongoing research at the annual Aresty Undergraduate Research Symposium. Well done, everyone! Word learning through the use … Read More