Kristen Syrett
{{Short description|American linguist}}
Kristen Syrett is a linguist whose work focuses on language acquisition, psycholinguistics, semantics, and pragmatics.{{Cite web |title=Kristen Syrett |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=m_4rLQ4AAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=scholar.google.com}}
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.{{Cite web |title=Graduate Alumni: Department of Linguistics - Northwestern University |url=https://linguistics.northwestern.edu/people/alumni/graduate.html |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=linguistics.northwestern.edu |language=en}}
She has been on the faculty at Rutgers since 2011, becoming an associate professor in 2017. She has served as the undergraduate program director of linguistics and director of the Rutgers Laboratory for Developmental Language Studies.{{cite web |title=Kristen Syrett |url=https://ling.rutgers.edu/people-mainmenu-137/faculty-mainmenu-211/393-kristen-syrett |access-date=11 March 2022 |website=Rutgers}}{{cite web |title=Laboratory for Developmental Language Studies, Rutgers University |url=https://sites.rutgers.edu/language-studies/ |access-date=11 March 2022}} Before joining the faculty, she was first a postdoctoral associate at the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (2007-2008) and then a postdoctoral fellow at the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (2008-2011).{{cite web |last1=Syrett |first1=Kristen |title=CV of Kristen Syrett|url=https://sites.rutgers.edu/kristen-syrett/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2021/09/Syrett_CV.pdf}}
Honors and awards
Syrett is a prominent figure in the Linguistics Society of America (LSA), having been twice awarded the Linguistic Service Award, first in 2007 and again as a co-awardee in 2020.{{cite web |last1=Linguistic Society of America |title=Linguistic Service Award Previous Holders |url=https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/linguistic-service-award-previous-winners |access-date=11 March 2022}} In 2018, she received the Early Career Award from the LSA, which recognizes "scholars early in their career who have made outstanding contributions to the field of linguistics".{{cite web |last1=Linguistic Society of America |title=Announcing the Winners of Four LSA Awards |url=https://www.linguisticsociety.org/news/2017/10/23/announcing-winners-four-lsa-awards |access-date=11 March 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences |url=https://ruccs.rutgers.edu/news/399-dr-kristen-syrett-wins-lsa-early-career-award |website=Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences |title=Dr. Kristen Syrett wins LSA Early Career award|access-date=11 March 2022}} As a student she received the prestigious Bernard and Julia Bloch Fellowship, the highest award to students offered by the society, and served as the student delegate to the executive committee of the LSA.{{cite web |last1=Linguistics Society of America |title=December 2015 Member Spotlight: Kristen Syrett |url=https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/december-2015-member-spotlight-kristen-syrett |access-date=11 March 2022}} In 2021 she became the chair of the LSA's Public Relations Committee.{{Cite web |title=Public Relations Committee {{!}} Linguistic Society of America |url=https://www.linguisticsociety.org/about/who-we-are/committees/public-relations |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=www.linguisticsociety.org}}
Selected publications
=Books=
- Syrett, K. and S. Arunachalam, Eds. (2018). Semantics in Language Acquisition. John Benjamins.{{cite book |editor1-last=Syrett |editor1-first=Kristen |editor2-last=Arunachalam |editor2-first=Sudha |title= Semantics in Language Acquisition, Trends in Language Acquisition (TiLAR) Series|date=2018 |publisher=John Benjamins |location=Amsterdam|isbn=9789027201379}}
=Selected articles=
- Kennedy, C. and K. Syrett (2022). "[https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73323-0_8 Numerals denote degree quantifiers: Evidence from child language]". Measurements, Numerals and Scales, 135-162.
- Syrett, Kristen, Christopher Kennedy, and Jeffrey Lidz. (2010). "[https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffp011 Meaning and Context in Children's Understanding of Gradable Adjectives]". Journal of Semantics, 27(1):1-35.{{cite journal |last1=Syrett |first1=K. |last2=Kennedy |first2=C. |last3=Lidz |first3=J. |title=Meaning and Context in Children's Understanding of Gradable Adjectives |journal=Journal of Semantics |date=1 February 2010 |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=1–35 |doi=10.1093/jos/ffp011|citeseerx=10.1.1.560.8777 }}
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Category:Linguists from the United States
Category:Rutgers University faculty