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
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
Morgan Moyer and Dr. Kristen Syrett each presented their research at the Rutgers-Bochum workshop held March 7-8 at Rutgers University, sponsored by RuCCS.
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).
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
Experimental evidence for context sensitivity in the nominal domain: What children and adults reveal
Context sensitivity in adjectives and nominals: Evidence from children and adults
Context sensitivity, vagueness and gradability in nominals: Evidence from child and adult language
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
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