{"id":3971,"date":"2025-11-28T17:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2025-11-28T17:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:29:06","slug":"prof-kristen-syrett-presents-at-bucld-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/prof-kristen-syrett-presents-at-bucld-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Kristen Syrett Presents at BUCLD 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In early November, Professor<strong>\u00a0Kristen Syrett<\/strong> presented at the 50th Boston University Conference on Language Development (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bucld\/\">BUCLD)<\/a> in two sessions.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3972\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3972\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3972 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2025\/11\/BUCLD-poster_Syrett-Becker-Kristen-Syrett-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2025\/11\/BUCLD-poster_Syrett-Becker-Kristen-Syrett-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2025\/11\/BUCLD-poster_Syrett-Becker-Kristen-Syrett-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2025\/11\/BUCLD-poster_Syrett-Becker-Kristen-Syrett-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2025\/11\/BUCLD-poster_Syrett-Becker-Kristen-Syrett-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2025\/11\/BUCLD-poster_Syrett-Becker-Kristen-Syrett-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Kristen Syrett and Professor Misha Becker (UNC Chapel Hill) with their poster.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the first session, she was a co-author (with Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/mbecker.web.unc.edu\/\">Misha Becker<\/a>) of a poster titled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe linguistic distribution of adjectives calls attention to variable object properties: The case of acquiring adjectives of emotion vs. color, shape, and size.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the second session, she joined Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.langcoglab.com\/\">Anna Papafragou<\/a> and Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/lang-cog-lab\/\">Barbara Landau<\/a> for a symposium on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSemantics, cognition and development: Retrospective, prospective,\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> where her talk explored how \u201ceasy\u201d words reveal the complex interplay of concepts, semantics, and pragmatics, with a focus on how count nouns are learned through partial objects.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early November, Professor\u00a0Kristen Syrett presented at the 50th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) in two sessions. 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