Hanna defends her thesis!
Hanna Murphy successfully defended her honors thesis, “Linguistic support for the acquisition of emotion adjectives.” Her thesis and her defense earned her highest honors and the department award for Research … Read More
Thesis Defenses
Honors thesis defense!
Dr. Syrett, Alison English, and Dr. Alrenga pose for a picture after Alison successfully defended her senior honors thesis. Alison handmade tiny wug dolls for Drs. Syrett and Alrenga!
Meg Gotowski successfully defends her dissertation
On Thursday, July 21, Meg Gotowski successfully defended her dissertation, entitled, “Syntactic Bootstrapping in the Adjectival Domain: Learning Subjective Adjectives.” Meg (soon to be officially Dr. Gotowski!) was advised by Dr. … Read More
Senior thesis defenses and awards
Congratulations to Nish Trivedi and Amy Rosen, who successfully defended their honors theses under the direction of Dr. Syrett. Here they are enjoying their celebratory bubble tea afterwards! Nish completed … Read More
Senior thesis defenses and awards
We are pleased to announce that THREE of our Research Assistants in the lab completed a senior honors thesis, advised by Dr. Syrett. This designates them all as University Paul … Read More
Morgan Moyer successfully defends her dissertation!
On Monday, July 20, Morgan Moyer successfully defended her dissertation, “The question of questions: Resolving (non-)exhaustivity in wh-questions.” Congratulations, Morgan! We’re so proud of you! And good luck with your … Read More
Vera Gor successfully defends her dissertation!
On Wednesday, June 3, Vera Gor successfully defended her dissertation, entitled, “Experimental investigations of Principle C at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface.” (Click here for abstract.) Vera (soon to be officially Dr. … Read More
Ilana, Kat, and Talia defend their senior honors thesis work!
The thesis defenses may have been virtual, but these amazing women pulled it off in style! We are so proud of Kathryn Slusarczyk, Ilana Torres, and Talia Lang for successfully … 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
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!