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Kristen Syrett's Degrees
- PhD Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kristen Syrett is a linguist whose work focuses on language acquisition, psycholinguistics, semantics, and pragmatics. Career Syrett completed her Ph.D. at Northwestern University in 2007 as a student of Jeffrey Lidz, Christopher Kennedy, and Sandra Waxman, with a dissertation titled Learning about the structure of scales: Adverbial modification and the acquisition of the semantics of gradable adjectives.
Kristen Syrett's Published Works
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- Meaning and Context in Children's Understanding of Gradable Adjectives (2010) (148)
- Experimental Evidence for the Truth Conditional Contribution and Shifting Information Status of Appositives (2015) (71)
- Learning about the structure of scales: Adverbial modification and the acquisition of the semantics of gradable adjectives (2007) (51)
- Competence, Performance, and the Locality of Quantifier Raising: Evidence from 4-Year-Old Children (2011) (44)
- The interaction of syntax, prosody, and discourse in licensing French wh-in-situ questions § (2013) (42)
- Collectivity, Distributivity, and the Interpretation of Plural Numerical Expressions in Child and Adult Language (2013) (39)
- Shifting Standards: Children’s Understanding of Gradable Adjectives (2006) (39)
- 30-Month-Olds Use the Distribution and Meaning of Adverbs to Interpret Novel Adjectives (2010) (34)
- How Can Syntax Support Number Word Acquisition? (2012) (32)
- Differences between Spanish monolingual and Spanish-English bilingual children in their calculation of entailment-based scalar implicatures (2017) (28)
- Slowly but Surely: Adverbs Support Verb Learning in 2-Year-Olds (2014) (27)
- The influence of conversational context and the developing lexicon on the calculation of scalar implicatures (2016) (25)
- Production and perception of listener-oriented clear speech in child language* (2013) (22)
- QR in Child Grammar: Evidence from Antecedent-Contained Deletion (2009) (21)
- The Role of Cardinality in the Interpretation of Measurement Expressions (2013) (14)
- Experimental Support for Inverse Scope Readings of Finite-Clause-Embedded Antecedent-Contained-Deletion Sentences (2015) (14)
- QR Out of a Tensed Clause: Evidence from Antecedent‐Contained Deletion (2015) (13)
- Prosodic disambiguation of scopally ambiguous quantificational sentences in a discourse context (2014) (12)
- Acquisition of Comparatives and Degree Constructions (2016) (10)
- Lexical Disambiguation in Verb Learning: Evidence from the Conjoined-Subject Intransitive Frame in English and Mandarin Chinese (2016) (10)
- The representation and processing of measure phrases by four-year-olds (2010) (10)
- Picking up after sloppy children: What pronouns reveal about children’s analysis of English comparative constructions (2014) (9)
- The influence of conversational context and the developing lexicon on the calculation of scalar implicatures: Insights from Spanish-English bilingual children (2017) (9)
- Interfacing information and prosody French wh-in-situ questions (2012) (8)
- The semantics of questions. (2019) (8)
- Gender bias in linguistics textbooks: Has anything changed since Macaulay & Brice 1997? (2021) (6)
- Interfacing information and prosody (2012) (6)
- Children Want to Access Every Interpretation Adults Do: Children’s Knowledge of Ambiguity in ACD Constructions (2004) (6)
- Mapping properties to individuals in language acquisition (2015) (5)
- Setting the standard in the acquisition of Japanese and English comparatives (2014) (4)
- Investigating the form-meaning mapping in the acquisition of English and Japanese measure phrase comparatives (2017) (4)
- Which account of wh-/quantifier interaction Should everyone adopt? A new take on a classic developmental puzzle (2013) (4)
- Specifying event reference in verb learning (2014) (4)
- Children’s Developing Knowledge of Wh-/Quantifier Question-Answer Relations (2017) (3)
- Crying helps, but being sad doesn’t: Infants constrain nominal reference online using known verbs, but not known adjectives (2019) (3)
- Number Word Acquisition: Cardinality, Bootstrapping, and Beyond: Reply to Commentaries (2012) (3)
- Events and agents in the acquisition of universal quantification (2015) (3)
- Context sensitivity and the semantics of count nouns in the evaluation of partial objects by children and adults (2021) (2)
- All together now: Disentangling semantics and pragmatics with together in child and adult language (2016) (2)
- Assessing Truth and Speaker Knowledge When Utterances Are Not Maximally True (2018) (2)
- An Experimental Investigation of the Scope of Object Comparative Quantifier Phrases (2019) (2)
- Distributivity (2019) (2)
- Authorship Ethics. ERIC/AE Digest. (1996) (1)
- Experimental evidence for the discourse potential of bare nouns in Mandarin * (2017) (1)
- Acquisition of Perspective and Empathy Verbs in Japanese (2020) (1)
- Supporting adjective learning by children with Developmental Language Disorder: Enhancing metalinguistic approaches. (2022) (1)
- Establishing upper bounds in English monolingual and Heritage Spanish-English bilingual language development (2020) (1)
- Prosodic disambiguation of scopally ambiguous sentences in a discourse context (2018) (1)
- Factors licensing embedded present tense in speech reports (2018) (1)
- Beyond Principle C: (Not)-at-issueness and plausibility influence acceptability of coconstrual (2018) (1)
- Won ’ t Somebody Think of the children : Beyond Maximality with Plural Definite Descriptions (2019) (1)
- Young Children ’ s Developing Expectations about the Language of Events (2016) (1)
- Numerals Denote Degree Quantifiers: Evidence from Child Language (2022) (1)
- 1-1-2016-hii : Modality Meets Exclusivity (2016) (0)
- University of Pennsylvania Working Papers University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics in Linguistics -hii: Modality Meets Exclusivity -hii: Modality Meets Exclusivity (2021) (0)
- Chapter 12. Overt, covert, and clandestine operations (2018) (0)
- Overt, covert, and clandestine operations: Ambiguity and ellipsis in acquisition (2018) (0)
- Adjectives (acquisition Of) (0)
- The Perils of Interpreting Comparatives with Pronouns for Children and Adults (2019) (0)
- Supporting Adjective Learning by Children with DLD: Enhancing Metalinguistic Approaches (2021) (0)
- Supporting adjective learning across the curriculum by 5-7 year-olds: Insights from psychological research (2021) (0)
- Perspective-Taking With Deictic Motion Verbs in Spanish: What We Learn About Semantics and the Lexicon From Heritage Child Speakers and Adults (2021) (0)
- Contextual , Lexical and Structural Factors Licensing Mention-Some Embedded Questions (2018) (0)
- Investigating the form-meaning mapping in the acquisition of English and Japanese measure phrase comparatives (2016) (0)
- The study of questions. (2020) (0)
- Principle C is just the beginning : Investigating the influence of plausibility and pronominal position on coconstrual (2018) (0)
- Syntactic bootstrapping with clausal complements of adjectives. (2023) (0)
- Investigating the Hypothesis Space for Children’s Interpretations of Comparatives (2020) (0)
- Can Adverbs Call Attention to Manner of Motion for 2-year-olds Learning Verbs? (2011) (0)
- -hii: Modality meets exclusivity (2015) (0)
- Chapter 1. The historical emergence and current study of semantics in acquisition (2018) (0)
- Antecedent-Contained Deletion (2019) (0)
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