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
Lab Holiday selfie! Because we know how to celebrate! (…and work out afterwards!)
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
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
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
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. 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
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. 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
Dr. Syrett taught a week-long course entitled, “Semantics in Language Acquisition” as part of the 2015 Advanced Core Training in Linguistics (ACTL) Summer School in London.