LSA 92
Vera Gor and Dr. Kristen Syrett presented a talk entitled, “The influence of pragmatic plausibility and processing in judgments of ungrammatical backwards anaphora,” at the 92ndAnnual Meeting of the Linguistic Society … Read More
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Dr. Syrett is an invited panelist at the LSA Annual Meeting
Dr. Kristen Syrett served was an invited speaker on the panel ‘Our Linguistics Community: Addressing Bias, Power Dynamics, Harassment’ at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Salt … Read More
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at CUNY
True, False, and Somewhere in Between
BUCLD 42
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 … Read More
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
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