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
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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
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).
BUCLD 43
Dr. Syrett presented a talk at BUCLD 43 in collaboration with researchers at Northwestern (Dr. Sandy Waxman, Sandy Latourrette, Brock Ferguson) entitled, “Crying helps, but being sad doesn’t: Verbs, but … Read More
Dr. Syrett is invited instructor at the 2019 LSA Summer Institute at UC-Davis
Dr. Kristen Syrett was an invited instructor at the 2019 Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America hosted by the University of California-Davis. Her course was entitled, “Acquisition 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!
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