NELS 48
Dr. Kristen Syrett and Athulya Aravind (a Ph.D. student at MIT and collaborator) presented their research as a poster entitled, “Investigating context sensitivity and vagueness in nominals in child and … Read More
Kristen Syrett
MACSIM 7
Vera Gor and Dr. Kristen Syrett presented a talk entitled, “Experimental evidence of pragmatic plausibility and processing in acceptable principle C violations,” at the Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning hosted … Read More
Word Learning Workshop
Dr. Kristen Syrett and Dr. Jane Grimshaw hosted the Workshop on Word Learning and Linguistic Theory at Rutgers University – New Brunswick, bringing in researchers on word learning from a number … Read More
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at the University of Reading in England
Dr. Syrett delivering her talk, Evaluating truth and speaker knowledge when statements aren’t entirely true: Experimental evidence from children and adults
XPrag 7 and SuB 22
Dr. Kristen Syrett and her coauthors Corien Bary, Daniel Altshuler, and Peter de Swart presented a poster entitled, “Factors licensing embedded present tense in speech reports,” at the 7thBiennial Experimental … Read More
2017 Undergraduate Celebration
Anna Goldin, Maggy Fread, Kim Boscodoss, Dr. Kristen Syrett, Rachel Gambacorta, Laura Simon-Pearson pose for a group picture at the annual Linguistics Department undergraduate celebration. Both Rachel and Laura received … Read More
Laura defended her senior honors thesis
Laura Simon-Pearson has successfully defended her senior honors thesis advised by Kristen, entitled, “Assessing truth and knowledge: How children differ from adults in assessment of truth values and speaker knowledge.” … Read More
Anna defends her senior honors thesis
Anna Goldin has successfully defended her senior honors thesis advised by Kristen, entitled, “I suppose that I presuppose: An experimental investigation of factors affecting presupposition projection.” Anna earned High Honors … Read More
2017 Undergraduate Research Symposium
Rachel Gambacorta, Maggy Fread, Dr. Kristen Syrett, Anna Goldin, Kim Boscodoss pose in front of their poster at the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Maggy Fread and Rachel Gambacorta present research at the … Read More
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at Washington University in St. Louis
Learning from children’s setbacks and successes with quantification