Laura Simon-Pearson and Dr. Kristen Syrett presented a talk entitled, “Assessing truth and speaker knowledge when utterances are not maximally true” at the 42ndAnnual Boston University Conference on Language Development in November. This research developed from Laura’s senior honors thesis advised by Kristen.
Kristen and Athulya Aravind (a Ph.D. student at MIT and collaborator) also presented their research as a poster entitled, “When is a part (not) as good as a whole: Factors affecting object individuation in non-counting and counting tasks.”