Laura Simon-Pearson has successfully defended her senior honors thesis advised by Kristen, entitled, “Assessing truth and knowledge: How children differ from adults in assessment of truth values and speaker knowledge.” … Read More
Anna Goldin has successfully defended her senior honors thesis advised by Kristen, entitled, “I suppose that I presuppose: An experimental investigation of factors affecting presupposition projection.” Anna earned High Honors … Read More
Rachel Gambacorta, Maggy Fread, Dr. Kristen Syrett, Anna Goldin, Kim Boscodoss pose in front of their poster at the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Maggy Fread and Rachel Gambacorta present research at the … Read More
Learning from children’s setbacks and successes with quantification
Dr. Kristen Syrett has been awarded a prestigious Rutgers University Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence.
Vera Gor presented some of her dissertation research advised by Dr. Kristen Syrett at the 91stAnnual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Austin, TX, in January. Their talk … Read More
An experimental investigation of nominal gradability: Parts and wholes
Dr. Kristen Syrett joined her coauthors Dr. Jennifer Austin, Dr. Liliana Sanchez, Anne Lingwall, and Silvia Pérez-Cortes to present their bilingual research as a poster entitled, ” Morphological Development and … Read More
Experimental Evidence for Gradability with Nominals and Category Membership
Jess Law and Dr. Kristen Syrett presented a poster entitled, “Experimental evidence for the discourse potential of bare nouns in Mandarin,” at the 47thAnnual North East Linguistics Society (NELS) at … Read More