Morgan and Kristen present at Rutgers-Bochum workshop
Morgan Moyer and Dr. Kristen Syrett each presented their research at the Rutgers-Bochum workshop held March 7-8 at Rutgers University, sponsored by RuCCS.
Lab News
Our end of semester holiday party!
Lab Holiday selfie! Because we know how to celebrate! (…and work out afterwards!)
BUCLD 44
Meg Gotowski and Dr. Kristen Syrett presented their talk “Investigating the hypothesis space of children’s interpretation of comparatives” at the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 44).
LDLS RAs form a FIGS Powerhouse!
This year five–count them, five(!)–students affiliated with the lab are serving as Peer Instructors for the Rutgers FIGS program! Four current RAs and one previous independent study student are helping … Read More
Morgan Moyer awarded NSF dissertation award
Morgan Moyer, a member of the lab working on her dissertation under the direction of Dr. Syrett, has received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) … Read More
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at XPrag Workshop on Adjectives in Germany
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
LDLS at Rutgers SAS Convocation 2019
Dr. Syrett and Taylor Martinez pose for a selfie at the 2019 SAS Convocation at Highpoint Stadium. Dr. Syrett as the Undergraduate Program Director of Linguistics joined the graduating Linguistics … Read More
2019 Undergraduate Research Symposium
The undergraduate research assistants from the lab presented two posters representing the lab’s ongoing research at the annual Aresty Undergraduate Research Symposium. Well done, everyone! Word learning through the use … 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
LSRL 49
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