Dr. Kristen Syrett and her coauthor Dr. Sudha Arunachalam have published their edited volume entitled, Semantics in Language Acquisition, as part of the John Benjamins series, Trends in Language Acquisition Research. … Read More
The theoretical and developmental consequences of children’s interpretation of comparative constructions
Learning from children’s setbacks and successes with quantification
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
Vera Gor presented some of her dissertation research advised by Dr. Kristen Syrett at the 47thAnnual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS) at UMass-Amherst. Her poster was entitled, “Acceptable … Read More
Dr. Kristen Syrett returned to Northwestern University, where she obtained her PhD in Linguistics to celebrate the 50thAnniversary of the Northwestern Department of Linguistics. She and other alumni presented in … Read More
Puzzles in children’s acquisition of comparatives
What children can tell us about the nature of grammatical constraints on movement: Evidence from embedded Antecedent-Contained Deletion
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
Comparatively Speaking: Accounting for children’s unexpected interpretations of comparative constructions