Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany,
What children can tell us about the nature of grammatical constraints on movement: Evidence from embedded Antecedent-Contained Deletion
What children can tell us about the nature of grammatical constraints on movement: Evidence from embedded Antecedent-Contained Deletion
Dr. Kristen Syrett and her collaborator Dr. Sudha Arunachalam presented a talk entitled, “Young children’s developing expectations about the language of events,” at the 40thAnnual Boston University Conference on Language … Read More
Dr. Syrett taught a week-long course entitled, “Semantics in Language Acquisition” as part of the 2015 Advanced Core Training in Linguistics (ACTL) Summer School in London.
How to set linguistic limits, and why children selectively adhere to them
To each his own: Successes and challenges with distributivity in child language
Challenges and support for verb learning
Where do we point the finger? Identifying obstacles to verb learning, and how to overcome them
Tomoe Arii, Vera Gor, Dr. Kristen Syrett, and Morgan Moyer pose for a picture at BUCLD 39. Dr. Kristen Syrett presented a talk at the 39thAnnual Boston University Conference on … Read More
Semantic support for learning motion verbs
Comparatively Speaking: Accounting for children’s unexpected interpretations of comparative constructions