Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at Stanford University
Context sensitivity, vagueness and gradability in nominals: Evidence from child and adult language
acquisition
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at New York University
The theoretical and developmental consequences of children’s interpretation of comparative constructions
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at CUNY
True, False, and Somewhere in Between
BUCLD 42
Laura Simon-Pearson and Dr. Kristen Syrett presented a talk entitled, “Assessing truth and speaker knowledge when utterances are not maximally true” at the 42ndAnnual Boston University Conference on Language Development … Read More
NELS 48
Dr. Kristen Syrett and Athulya Aravind (a Ph.D. student at MIT and collaborator) presented their research as a poster entitled, “Investigating context sensitivity and vagueness in nominals in child and … Read More
Word Learning Workshop
Dr. Kristen Syrett and Dr. Jane Grimshaw hosted the Workshop on Word Learning and Linguistic Theory at Rutgers University – New Brunswick, bringing in researchers on word learning from a number … Read More
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at the University of Reading in England
Dr. Syrett delivering her talk, Evaluating truth and speaker knowledge when statements aren’t entirely true: Experimental evidence from children and adults
Laura defended her senior honors thesis
Laura Simon-Pearson has successfully defended her senior honors thesis advised by Kristen, entitled, “Assessing truth and knowledge: How children differ from adults in assessment of truth values and speaker knowledge.” … Read More
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at Washington University in St. Louis
Learning from children’s setbacks and successes with quantification
LSA 91
Vera Gor presented some of her dissertation research advised by Dr. Kristen Syrett at the 91stAnnual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Austin, TX, in January. Their talk … Read More