ELM 2026
Rutgers women semanticists were well represented at the ELM conference 2026 at UPenn! Dr. Kristen Syrett and Dr. Shannon Bryant (RuCCS) presented their poster “English reflexive use is mediated by … Read More
Summer Schools
More syntactic bootstrapping of adjectives in press!
Dr. Syrett and her former graduate student Meg Gotowski (previously a post-doc at MIT, and a visiting Professor at Pomona College, now a visiting professor at William & Mary) have … Read More
Meg Gotowski and Dr. Kristen Syrett presented at BUCLD 47
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
Our end of semester holiday party!
Lab Holiday selfie! Because we know how to celebrate! (…and work out afterwards!)
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at XPrag Workshop on Adjectives in Germany
Dr. Syrett gave an invited talk entitled, “Setting the standard and making comparisons in language acquisition” at the XPrag Workshop,” in The semantics and pragmatics of gradable adjectives: Integrating perspectives from … Read More
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
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
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
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