Dr. Kristen Syrett was an invited instructor at the 2019 Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America hosted by the University of California-Davis. Her course was entitled, “Acquisition of … Read More
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
Tomoe Arii, Vera Gor, Dr. Kristen Syrett, and Morgan Moyer pose for a picture at BUCLD 39. Dr. Kristen Syrett presented a talk at the 39thAnnual Boston University Conference on … Read More
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