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
Dr. Syrett delivering her talk, Word by word: Experimental investigations in the acquisition of the lexicon conference website
Challenges and support for verb learning
Where do we point the finger? Identifying obstacles to verb learning, and how to overcome them
Semantic support for learning motion verbs
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
Investigating the role of adverbs in verb learning
Dr. Kristen Syrett presented a talk with her coauthors Dr. Sudha Arunachalam and Dr. Sandy Waxman entitled, “Can adverbs call attention to manner of motion for 2-year-olds learning verbs?” at … Read More