Nicole Nelson, a graduate alumna, will release her debut novel, Family Language, through Melville House on November 10, 2026. The novel follows Dr. Mona Melamed, a linguist and university professor … Read More
In late September, Dr. Ryan Walter Smith published a new paper in a special issue of Philosophical Studies on Semantics and Memory. His paper is titled “Memory reports as state descriptions: … Read More
Rutgers faculty member Dr. Kristen Syrett, along with co-authors Premvanti Patel (Yale University) and Athulya Aravind (Yale University, MIT), recently published a study examining how children and adults understand language … Read More
Professor Dorothy Ahn, in collaboration with Annemarie Kocab (Johns Hopkins University) and Kathryn Davidson (Harvard University), has published an article in Language. Their paper investigates the role of loci in … Read More
Congratulations to Ryan Walter Smith, Josep Ausensi (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), and Jianrong Yu on their recent publication in Isogloss. The article, titled “Strong and weak resultatives with result roots … Read More
Congratulations to Professor Kristen Syrett on her recent publication examining how children interpret count nouns and evaluate quantity when presented with partial objects. The article investigates why children often “over-count” … Read More
Congratulations to graduate student Hyunjung Joo, whose paper, co-authored with Mariapaola D’Imperio, has been published in Language and Speech. The article, titled “The Perception of Lexical Pitch Accent in South … Read More
In May 2025, Professor Maria Kouneli published a joint paper with Paula Fenger (Universität Leipzig) and Jonathan Bobaljik (Harvard University) in the journal Natural Language & Linguistic Theory (NLLT). The … Read More
On September 5, Professor Dorothy Ahn and recent graduate alum Ziling Zhu published an article in Natural Language Semantics titled “A bridge to definiteness: identifying unique and relational definites through … Read More
Graduate student alum Daphna Heller (currently at the University of Toronto) recently received an award from the journal Cognitive Science for being in the top 10% of viewed papers in … Read More