LDLS seniors celebrate
The LDLS seniors and Dr. Syrett pose for a picture at the Annual Undergraduate Linguistics Celebration in April 2023. We’re so proud of our graduating seniors, and we wish them … Read More
Lab News
Aresty Research Symposium 2023
Deshik, Madison, and Vaishnavi successfully presented our lab’s research on ‘partial objects’ at the Aresty undergraduate research symposium on April 28, 2023. Well done, team!
Vaishnavi and Khushi present in the Aresty Summer Science Symposium
Research Assistants Vaishnavi and Khushi present their poster on word learning and adjectives at the 2022 Aresty Summer Science Symposium. Amidst posters dedicated to genetics, molecular biology, physics, and the … 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
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
Nish graduates from Rutgers!
Recent graduate Nishtha Trivedi and Dr. Syrett celebrate at the 2022 School of Arts and Sciences Convocation in May. Congratulations, Nish!
Amy R. graduates from Rutgers!
Amy Rosen graduates from Rutgers! We’re so very proud of you, Amy!
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
Dr. Syrett honored with mentoring award
Dr. Syrett has been awarded the Faculty Mentor Award by the Rutgers University First-year Interest Group Seminars (FIGS) Program, for her role mentoring peer instructors.
LDLS represented at NELS 52 @ Rutgers
Dr. Syrett and two of her doctoral students will be presenting their work at NELS 52 @ Rutgers at the end of October! Former PhD student Vera Gor, who has … Read More