Dr. Syrett attends BUCLD 50
Dr. Syrett presented a poster and a talk during an afternoon symposium at BUCLD 50. While there, she reunited with collaborators including Meg Gotowski (RU PhD alum), Shuyan Wang (LDLS … Read More
experimental semantics
Morgan Moyer successfully defends her dissertation!
On Monday, July 20, Morgan Moyer successfully defended her dissertation, “The question of questions: Resolving (non-)exhaustivity in wh-questions.” Congratulations, Morgan! We’re so proud of you! And good luck with your … Read More
Morgan and Kristen present at Rutgers-Bochum workshop
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.
LSA 93
Vera Gor and Dr. Kristen Syrett presented their talk entitled, “Not-at-Issueness and Principle C: Information status influences judgments of structurally illicit coconstruals” at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society … Read More
SuB 23
Morgan Moyer and Dr. Kristen Syrett presented a poster entitled, “(Non-)Exhaustivity in embedded questions: contextual, lexical, and structural factors” at Sinn und Bedeutung in Spain in September. This work is … Read More
Dr. Syrett is invited instructor at the 2019 LSA Summer Institute at UC-Davis
Dr. Kristen Syrett was an invited instructor at the 2019 Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America hosted by the University of California-Davis. Her course was entitled, “Acquisition of … Read More
CLS 54
Dr. Kristen Syrett and two of her graduate students presented talks based on their dissertation work at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society at the University of Chicago in … Read More
Dr. Syrett publishes Semantics in Acquisition volume
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
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at University of California, Santa Cruz
Experimental evidence for context sensitivity in the nominal domain: What children and adults reveal
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Context sensitivity in adjectives and nominals: Evidence from children and adults