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  1. When and why parts count: Linking categorization and counting of partial objects

    Article • December 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  2. Challenges and Strategies for Acquiring Adjectives

    Article • Language and Linguistics Compass, September 2024, Wiley

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  3. Perceptual Benefits of Linguistic Diversity and Language Background: Evidence from Auditory Free Classification of English Dialect Accents and Asian-Accented English

    Article • Glossa Psycholinguistics, August 2024, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  4. Syntactic bootstrapping with clausal complements of adjectives

    Article • Journal of Child Language, February 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  5. Supporting adjective learning across the curriculum by 5–7 year‐olds: Insights from psychological research

    Article • Language and Linguistics Compass, October 2022, Wiley

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  6. Supporting Adjective Learning by Children with DLD: Enhancing Metalinguistic Approaches

    Article • November 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  7. Supporting adjective learning across the curriculum by 5-7 year olds: Insights from psychological research

    Article • November 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  8. Context sensitivity and the semantics of count nouns in the evaluation of partial objects by children and adults

    Article • Journal of Child Language, March 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  9. Establishing upper bounds in English monolingual and Heritage Spanish-English bilingual language development

    Article • Language Acquisition, August 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Liliana E. Sanchez, Dr Kristen L Syrett

  10. The study of questions

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science, June 2020, Wiley

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  11. Crying helps, but being sad doesn’t: Infants constrain nominal reference online using known verbs, but not known adjectives

    Article • Cognition, December 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  12. The semantics of questions

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science, July 2019, Wiley

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  13. Semantics in Language Acquisition

    Article • July 2018, John Benjamins

    Dr Kristen L Syrett, Sudha Arunachalam

  14. Chapter 1. The historical emergence and current study of semantics in acquisition

    Article • July 2018, John Benjamins

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  15. Chapter 12. Overt, covert, and clandestine operations

    Article • July 2018, John Benjamins

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  16. The influence of conversational context and the developing lexicon on the calculation of scalar implicatures

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, February 2016, John Benjamins

    Dr Kristen L Syrett, Dr Liliana E. Sanchez, Silvia Perez-Cortes

  17. QR Out of a Tensed Clause: Evidence from Antecedent-Contained Deletion

    Article • Ratio, October 2015, Wiley

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  18. All together now: Disentangling semantics and pragmatics withtogetherin child and adult language

    Article • Language Acquisition, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  19. Experimental Support for Inverse Scope Readings of Finite-Clause-Embedded Antecedent-Contained-Deletion Sentences

    Article • Linguistic Inquiry, July 2015, The MIT Press

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  20. Events and agents in the acquisition of universal quantification

    Article • Theoretical Linguistics, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  21. Experimental Evidence for the Truth Conditional Contribution and Shifting Information Status of Appositives

    Article • Journal of Semantics, July 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  22. Prosodic disambiguation of scopally ambiguous quantificational sentences in a discourse context

    Article • Journal of Linguistics, February 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  23. Production and perception of listener-oriented clear speech in child language

    Article • Journal of Child Language, November 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  24. Slowly but Surely: Adverbs Support Verb Learning in 2-Year-Olds

    Article • Language Learning and Development, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  25. Collectivity, Distributivity, and the Interpretation of Plural Numerical Expressions in Child and Adult Language

    Article • Language Acquisition, October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  26. The Role of Cardinality in the Interpretation of Measurement Expressions

    Article • Language Acquisition, July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  27. The interaction of syntax, prosody, and discourse in licensing French wh-in-situ questions

    Article • Lingua, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  28. How Can Syntax Support Number Word Acquisition?

    Article • Language Learning and Development, April 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  29. Number Word Acquisition: Cardinality, Bootstrapping, and Beyond: Reply to Commentaries

    Article • Language Learning and Development, April 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  30. Commentary on “How Can Syntax Support Number Word Acquisition?” by Kristen Syrett, Julien Musolino, and Rochel Gelman

    Article • Language Learning and Development, March 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  31. Interfacing information and prosody

    Article • January 2012, John Benjamins

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  32. Competence, Performance, and the Locality of Quantifier Raising: Evidence from 4-Year-Old Children

    Article • Linguistic Inquiry, April 2011, The MIT Press

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  33. 30-Month-Olds Use the Distribution and Meaning of Adverbs to Interpret Novel Adjectives

    Article • Language Learning and Development, September 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  34. QR in Child Grammar: Evidence from Antecedent-Contained Deletion

    Article • Language Acquisition, March 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Kristen L Syrett

  35. Adjectives

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Dr Kristen L Syrett