Vaishnavi successfully defended her senior honors thesis, and earned both Highest Honors and the Department of Linguistics Award for Research Excellence! Prior to this, she presented her work at an … Read More
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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