Syrett, K. (to appear). Acquisition of adjectives. In P. Brooks & V. Kempe (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Language Development. SAGE Reference Publications. [pdf]

Arunachalam, S., Syrett, K., & Waxman, S. R. (2012). Can adverbs call attention to manner of motion for 2-year-olds learning verbs? In A. Biller, E. Chung, and A. Kimball (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [pdf]

Syrett, K., Arunachalam, S., & Waxman, S. R. (resubmitted). Slowly but surely: Adverbs support verb learning in 2-year-olds. Language Learning and Development. [pdf]

Syrett, K., & Lidz, J. (2010). 30-month-olds use the distribution and meaning of adverbs to interpret novel adjectives. Language Learning and Development, 6. [pdf]

Syrett, K., Kennedy, C., & Lidz, J. (2010). Meaning and context in children’s understanding of gradable adjectives. Journal of Semantics, 27(1), 1-35. [pdf]

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 (GALANA), Honolulu, HI (pp. 353-364). Cambridge, Mass: UConn Occasional Papers in Linguistics 4. [pdf]

Syrett, K. (to appear). Comparatives and degree constructions. Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics. [pdf]

Syrett, K. (accepted). The role of cardinality in the interpretation of measurement expressions. Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics. [pdf]

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 (BUCLD) (pp. 421-432). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [pdf]

Syrett, K., Kennedy, C., Musolino, J., Buco, S., & Starcher, K. (2012). Acquiring the non-exact reading of numerical expressions: What semantics says you have to do and what pragmatics allows. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. [pdf of poster]

Syrett, K., & Musolino, J. (under revision). Collectivity, distributivity, and the interpretation of plural numerical expressions in child and adult language. Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics. [pdf]

Syrett, K., & Musolino, J. (in preparation). All together now: Collectivity, distributivity, and the semantics of together in child and adult language.

Syrett, K., Musolino, J., & Gelman, R. (2012). How can syntax support number word acquisition? Language Learning and Development. [pdf]

Syrett, K., Musolino, J., & Gelman, R. (2012). Number word acquisition: Cardinality, bootstrapping, and beyond (reply to commentaries). Language Learning and Development. [pdf]

Achimova, A., Crosby, C., Déprez, V., Syrett, K., & Musolino, J. (2013). Which account of wh-/quantifier interaction should everyone adopt? A new take on a classic developmental puzzle. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [pdf]

Syrett, K., & Lidz, J. (2009). QR in child grammar: Evidence from Antecedent-Contained Deletion. Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 16(2), 67-81. [pdf]

Syrett, K., & Lidz, J. (2011). Competence, performance and the locality of Quantifier Raising: Evidence from 4-year-old children. Linguistic Inquiry, 42(2), 305-337. [pdf]

Syrett, K., & Lidz, J. (2005). Learning scope economy: Why children will QR out of a tensed embedded clause but adults won’t. In C. Davis, A. R. Deal, & Y. Zabbal (Eds.), Proceedings of 36th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS) (pp. 575-586). UMass, Amherst: GLSA. [pdf]

Lidz, J., McMahon, E., Syrett, K., Viau, J., Anggoro, F., Peterson-Hicks, J., Sneed, E., Bunger, A., Flevaris, T., Graham, A., Grohne, K., Lee , Y., & Strid, J. E. (2004). Quantifier Raising in 4-year-olds. In A. Brugos, L. Micciulla, & C. E. Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) (pp. 340-349). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [pdf]

Déprez, V., Syrett, K., & Kawahara, S. (to appear). The interaction of syntax, prosody, and discourse in licensing French wh-in-situ questions. Lingua. [pdf]
See our poster from the Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information Structure 4, 2010 [pdf]

Déprez, V., Syrett, K., & Kawahara, S. (to appear). Interfacing information and prosody: French wh-in-situ questions. Romance languages and Linguistic Theory 2010. [pdf]

Syrett, K., & Kawahara, S. (resubmitted). Production and perception of listener-oriented clear speech in child language. Journal of Child Language. [pdf]

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 at McGill University. [pdf of poster]

Syrett, K., Simon, G., & Nisula, K.(under revision). Speakers’ production and listeners’ perception of scopally ambiguous sentences in a discourse context.

Syrett, K., Simon, G., & Nisula, K. (2012). Speakers and hearers use prosody to disambiguate scopally-ambiguous sentences. Poster to be presented at the 43rd Annual North East Linguistic Society Meeting, October 19-21, CUNY, NY.