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
Lab News
Dr. Syrett and the Graduating Seniors celebrate!
Sam Krasner, Dr. Kristen Syrett, and Tirzah Carvalho join together at the Annual Undergraduate Celebration to celebrate Sam and Tirzah graduating and heading on to graduate school in SLP! We’re … Read More
Dr. Syrett attends BUCLD 50
Dr. Syrett presented a poster and a talk during an afternoon symposium at BUCLD 50. While there, she reunited with collaborators including Meg Gotowski (RU PhD alum), Shuyan Wang (LDLS … Read More
Dr. Syrett and the lab seniors celebrate!
Deshik Iyengar, Vaishnavi Elanchezhian, Dr. Syrett, and Maya Brisman celebrate the end of the academic year at the Annual Linguistics Undergraduate Celebration. Deshik received the Academic Excellence Award, Vaishnavi received … Read More
Vaishnavi defends her senior honors thesis
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
Dr. Syrett presents two posters at BUCLD 49
Dr. Syrett presented two posters at BUCLD 49. She presented one with her collaborator Dr. Athulya Aravind (MIT) on children’s and adults’ categorization and quantification of partial objects, and another … Read More
New publication!
Dr. Syrett and two former students (Joy Lu, a former undergraduate honors thesis student, and Kyle Parrish, a former graduate student from Spanish & Portuguese) have published a paper stemming … Read More
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
LDLS at ELM!
Dr. Syrett presented a paper “Syntactic structure supports the acquisition of emotion and mental state adjectives” with her collaborator Dr. Misha Becker (UNC, Chapel Hill) and a poster “Using bounds … Read More
Convocation 2024!
Congratulations to our graduating seniors! Dr. Syrett and Hanna Murphy at the Honors College Convocation