NELS 48
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
experimental semantics
XPrag 7 and SuB 22
Dr. Kristen Syrett and her coauthors Corien Bary, Daniel Altshuler, and Peter de Swart presented a poster entitled, “Factors licensing embedded present tense in speech reports,” at the 7thBiennial Experimental … Read More
Laura defended her senior honors thesis
Laura Simon-Pearson has successfully defended her senior honors thesis advised by Kristen, entitled, “Assessing truth and knowledge: How children differ from adults in assessment of truth values and speaker knowledge.” … Read More
Anna defends her senior honors thesis
Anna Goldin has successfully defended her senior honors thesis advised by Kristen, entitled, “I suppose that I presuppose: An experimental investigation of factors affecting presupposition projection.” Anna earned High Honors … Read More
LSA 91
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
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at the New York University Philosophy of Language Workshop
An experimental investigation of nominal gradability: Parts and wholes
Dr. Syrett gives invited talk at CUNY as part of the Cognitive Science Speaker Series
Experimental Evidence for Gradability with Nominals and Category Membership
NELS 47
Jess Law and Dr. Kristen Syrett presented a poster entitled, “Experimental evidence for the discourse potential of bare nouns in Mandarin,” at the 47thAnnual North East Linguistics Society (NELS) at … Read More
MACSIM 6
Jess Law and Dr. Kristen Syrett presented a poster entitled, “Experimental evidence for the discourse potential of bare nouns in Mandarin” at the Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning hosted by … Read More
Dr. Syrett is invited instructor at ACTL Summer School in London
Dr. Syrett taught a week-long course entitled, “Semantics in Language Acquisition” as part of the 2015 Advanced Core Training in Linguistics (ACTL) Summer School in London.