Arunachalam, S., Syrett, K., & Waxman, S. R. (2012). Can adverbs call attention to manner of motion for 2-year-olds learning verbs? In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [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. 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. 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., & Musolino, J. (submitted). Collectivity, distributivity, and the interpretation of numerical expressions in child and adult language. [pdf]

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]

Syrett, K. 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., & 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. (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. (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., 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., Kawahara, S., Greenberg, L., & Kelliher, M. (in preparation). The acoustic correlates and perception of children's clear speech.

Syrett, K. (2007). Learning about the structure of scales: Adverbial modification and the acquisition of the semantics of gradable adjectives. Doctoral dissertation. Northwestern University, Department of Linguistics. [abstract] [pdf]