BUCLD 43
Dr. Syrett presented a talk at BUCLD 43 in collaboration with researchers at Northwestern (Dr. Sandy Waxman, Sandy Latourrette, Brock Ferguson) entitled, “Crying helps, but being sad doesn’t: Verbs, but … Read More
Dr. Syrett presented a talk at BUCLD 43 in collaboration with researchers at Northwestern (Dr. Sandy Waxman, Sandy Latourrette, Brock Ferguson) entitled, “Crying helps, but being sad doesn’t: Verbs, but … Read More
Pragmatic reasoning about event reference in children and adults
Dr. Kristen Syrett and Dr. Jane Grimshaw hosted the Workshop on Word Learning and Linguistic Theory at Rutgers University – New Brunswick, bringing in researchers on word learning from a number … Read More
Dr. Syrett delivering her talk, Word by word: Experimental investigations in the acquisition of the lexicon conference website
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
Challenges and support for verb learning
Where do we point the finger? Identifying obstacles to verb learning, and how to overcome them
Semantic support for learning motion verbs
Dr. Kristen Syrett and her collaborator Dr. Sudha Arunachalam presented a talk entitled, “Specifying event reference in verb learning,” at the 38thAnnual Boston University Conference on Language Development in November.
Syntactic and semantic constraints on verb meaning and event reference in English