In early November, Professor Kristen Syrett presented at the 50th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) in two sessions.
In the first session, she was a co-author (with Dr. Misha Becker) of a poster titled “The linguistic distribution of adjectives calls attention to variable object properties: The case of acquiring adjectives of emotion vs. color, shape, and size.”
In the second session, she joined Dr. Anna Papafragou and Dr. Barbara Landau for a symposium on “Semantics, cognition and development: Retrospective, prospective,” where her talk explored how “easy” words reveal the complex interplay of concepts, semantics, and pragmatics, with a focus on how count nouns are learned through partial objects.