CLS 54
Dr. Kristen Syrett and two of her graduate students presented talks based on their dissertation work at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society at the University of Chicago in … Read More
Lab News
2018 Undergraduate Research Symposium
Michelle Goldberg presenting her poster at the Undergraduate Research Symposium
Rutgers Day 2018
The Department of Linguistics undergraduate and graduate students joined the Speech and Hearing Club to host the table at the Annual Rutgers Day, and spread the word about how fun … Read More
Lab Featured in SAS publication
Dr. Kristen Syrett and the Laboratory for Developmental Language Studies as part of the Center for Cognitive Science have been featured in the Spring 2018 edition of the School of … 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!
Workshop on Current Investigations in Bilingualism
Dr. Kristen Syrett organized a Workshop for the Center for Cognitive Science on Current Investigations in Bilingualism, bringing in well-known researchers on various aspects of bilingualism and L2 learning for … Read More
Dr. Syrett publishes Semantics in Acquisition volume
Dr. Kristen Syrett and her coauthor Dr. Sudha Arunachalam have published their edited volume entitled, Semantics in Language Acquisition, as part of the John Benjamins series, Trends in Language Acquisition Research. … Read More
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at Penn Common Ground at the University of Pennsylvania
Pragmatic reasoning about event reference in children and adults
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at University of California, Santa Cruz
Experimental evidence for context sensitivity in the nominal domain: What children and adults reveal
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Context sensitivity in adjectives and nominals: Evidence from children and adults