Dr. Syrett gives invited talk representing Rutgers at the UMD Mayfest
Challenges in the interpretation of quantities and comparison in language acquisition
Challenges in the interpretation of quantities and comparison in language acquisition
Dr. Kristen Syrett joined her coauthor Tomoe Arii to present their talk with Takuya Goro entitled, “Setting the standard in the acquisition of Japanese and English comparatives,” at the 50th … Read More
Experimental investigations into Antecedent-Contained Deletion: Why hard-to-access interpretations really aren’t ungrammatical
Dr. Kristen Syrett and her collaborator Dr. Sudha Arunachalam presented a talk entitled, “Specifying event reference in verb learning,” at the 38thAnnual Boston University Conference on Language Development in November.
Syntactic and semantic constraints on verb meaning and event reference in English
Dr. Kristen Syrett joined her coauthors Sudha Arunachalam and Sandy Waxman to present a tak entitled, “Manner adverbials can provide informational support for verb learning,” as part of the Symposium … Read More
Asya Achimova, Dr. Julien Musolino, Dr. Kristen Syrett, Christa Crosby, and Stephanie Buco posed for a picture at the 37th Annual Boston University Conference on Child Language Development. Kristen joined … Read More
Investigating the role of adverbs in verb learning
On the collective/distributive ambiguity of pluralities in children and adults
Collectivity, distributivity, and pluralities: A view from language acquisition