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
True, False, and Somewhere in Between
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. Syrett delivering her talk, Evaluating truth and speaker knowledge when statements aren’t entirely true: Experimental evidence from children and adults
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
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.
On the collective/distributive ambiguity of pluralities in children and adults
Collectivity, distributivity, and pluralities: A view from language acquisition
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