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
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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
LSA 93
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
SuB 23
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
Dr. Syrett is invited instructor at the 2019 LSA Summer Institute at UC-Davis
Dr. Kristen Syrett was an invited instructor at the 2019 Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America hosted by the University of California-Davis. Her course was entitled, “Acquisition of … Read More
CLS 54
Dr. Kristen Syrett and two of her graduate students presented talks based on their dissertation work at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society at the University of Chicago in … Read More