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).
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
Laura Simon-Pearson and Dr. Kristen Syrett presented a talk entitled, “Assessing truth and speaker knowledge when utterances are not maximally true” at the 42ndAnnual Boston University Conference on Language Development … Read More
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
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
An experimental investigation of nominal gradability: Parts and wholes