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 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
Meg Gotowski (recently defended PhD) and Dr. Kristen Syrett (PI) presented their experimental work on the syntactic bootstrapping of adjectives as a paper at the Boston University Conference on Language … Read More
Dr. Syrett and two of her doctoral students will be presenting their work at NELS 52 @ Rutgers at the end of October! Former PhD student Vera Gor, who has … Read More
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).
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
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
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
Vera Gor and Dr. Kristen Syrett presented their talk entitled, “Not-at-Issueness and Principle C: Information status influences judgments of structurally illicit coconstruals” at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society … Read More
Morgan Moyer and Dr. Kristen Syrett presented a poster entitled, “(Non-)Exhaustivity in embedded questions: contextual, lexical, and structural factors” at Sinn und Bedeutung in Spain in September. This work is … Read More