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 Word learning |
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Arunachalam, S., Syrett, K., & Waxman, S. R. (submitted). Taking it nice and slow: Adverbial modification and the acquisition of verbs by 2-year-olds. Syrett, K., Musolino, J., & Gelman, R. (2012). How can syntax support number word acquisition? Language Learning and Development. Syrett, K., Musolino, J., & Gelman, R. (2012). Number word acquisition: Bootstrapping, cardinality and beyond. (reply to commentaries). Language Learning and Development. Syrett, K., & Lidz, J. (2010). 30-month-olds use the distribution and meaning of adverbs to interpret novel adjectives. Language Learning and Development, 6, 258-282. |
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| Word meaning and Sentence interpretation |
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Syrett, K., & Musolino, J. (submitted). Collectivity, distributivity, and the interpretation of numerical expressions in child and adult language Syrett, K. (under review). The role of cardinality in the interpretation of measurement expressions. Syrett, K. (accepted). Comparatives and degree constructions. Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics. Syrett, K., & Lidz, J. (2011). Competence, performance and the locality of Quantifier Raising: Evidence from 4-year-old children. Linguistic Inquiry, 42, 305-337. Syrett, K. (2010). The representation and processing of measure phrases by four-year-olds. In K. Franich, K. Iserman, & L. Keil (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 421-432). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. Syrett, K., Kennedy, C., & Lidz, J. (2010). Meaning and context in children’s understanding of gradable adjectives. Journal of Semantics, 27, 1-35. Syrett, K., & Lidz, J. (2009). QR in child grammar: Evidence from Antecedent-Contained Deletion. Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 16, 67-81. Syrett, K., Bradley, E., Kennedy, C., & Lidz, J. (2006). Shifting standards: Children’s understanding of gradable adjectives. In K. Ud Deen, J. Nomura, B. Schulz, & B. D. Schwartz (Eds.), Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America, Honolulu, HI (pp. 353-364). Cambridge, Mass: UConn Occasional Papers in Linguistics 4. |
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| Sound, meaning, and context |
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Déprez, V., Syrett, K., & Kawahara, S. (in press). The interaction of syntax, prosody, and discourse in licensing French wh-in-situ questions. Lingua (Special issue: Prosody at the Grammatical Crossroad). Déprez, V., Syrett, K., & Kawahara, S. (accepted). Interfacing information and prosody: French wh-in-situ questions. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory (selected papers from Going Romance 24). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Syrett, K., Nisula, K., Simon, G., Klimashousky, S. (2011). The contribution of information structure and prosody in sentence disambiguation in English. Poster presented at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP) 2, September 23-25. McGill University, Montréal, Canada. Syrett, K., Kawahara, S., Greenberg, L., & Kelliher, M. (in preparation). Perception and production of children’s clear speech. |
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