Lab Featured in SAS publication
Dr. Kristen Syrett and the Laboratory for Developmental Language Studies as part of the Center for Cognitive Science have been featured in the Spring 2018 edition of the School of … Read More
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Zehra defends her senior honors thesis
Zehra has successfully defended her senior honors thesis advised by Kristen. Her thesis, entitled, “Domain restriction with plural definite descriptions in child language,” has earned Zehra high honors. Congratulations, Zehra!
Workshop on Current Investigations in Bilingualism
Dr. Kristen Syrett organized a Workshop for the Center for Cognitive Science on Current Investigations in Bilingualism, bringing in well-known researchers on various aspects of bilingualism and L2 learning for … Read More
Dr. Syrett publishes Semantics in Acquisition volume
Dr. Kristen Syrett and her coauthor Dr. Sudha Arunachalam have published their edited volume entitled, Semantics in Language Acquisition, as part of the John Benjamins series, Trends in Language Acquisition Research. … Read More
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at Penn Common Ground at the University of Pennsylvania
Pragmatic reasoning about event reference in children and adults
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at University of California, Santa Cruz
Experimental evidence for context sensitivity in the nominal domain: What children and adults reveal
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Context sensitivity in adjectives and nominals: Evidence from children and adults
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at Stanford University
Context sensitivity, vagueness and gradability in nominals: Evidence from child and adult language
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at New York University
The theoretical and developmental consequences of children’s interpretation of comparative constructions
Kristen receives LSA Early Career Award
Dr. Kristen Syrett has received the prestigious Early Career Award from the Linguistic Society of America.