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
Kristen Syrett
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
Zach defends his honors thesis
Zachary Dau defended his honors thesis, entitled, “The linguistic status of emojis,” under the direction of Dr. Syrett. Zach’s accomplishment writing an honors thesis earns him the status of a … Read More
LSRL 49
Michele Goldin (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) will be presenting her joint work with Dr. Kristen Syrett and Dr. Liliana Sanchez (Dept of S&P) as a talk entitled “Easy come, … Read More
GASLA XV
Michele Goldin (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) presented her joint work with Dr. Kristen Syrett and Dr. Liliana Sanchez (Dept of S&P) as a poster entitled “Come to think of … Read More
Lab featured in SAS newsletter
Dr. Syrett and her students Maggy Fread and Aida Bahrami were featured in the School of Arts and Sciences newsletter as part of a feature on the Center for Cognitive … Read More
NELS 49
Vera Gor and Dr. Kristen Syrett presented a talk entitled, “What’s at issue when Principle C is not-at-issue: Information status and backwards anaphora,” at the 49thAnnual North East Linguistics Society … Read More
BUCLD 43
Dr. Syrett presented a talk at BUCLD 43 in collaboration with researchers at Northwestern (Dr. Sandy Waxman, Sandy Latourrette, Brock Ferguson) entitled, “Crying helps, but being sad doesn’t: Verbs, but … Read More