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
Pragmatic reasoning about event reference in children and adults
Dr. Kristen Syrett joined her coauthors Dr. Jennifer Austin, Dr. Liliana Sanchez, Anne Lingwall, and Silvia Pérez-Cortes to present their bilingual research as a poster entitled, ” Morphological Development and … Read More
Reasoning in Context in Child Language Acquisition
Dr. Kristen Syrett and her collaborator Dr. Sudha Arunachalam presented a talk entitled, “Young children’s developing expectations about the language of events,” at the 40thAnnual Boston University Conference on Language … Read More
How to set linguistic limits, and why children selectively adhere to them
Dr. Kristen Syrett, Dr. Jennifer Austin, Dr. Liliana Sanchez, Anne Lingwall, and Silvia Perez-Cortes presented their poster, “Investigations into the calculation of scalar implicatures by Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers,” at the Hispanic Linguistics … Read More