Patel, P., Aravind, A., & Syrett, K. accepted. Children and adults’ interpretation of count nouns and partial objects in bounded quantificational contexts. Language Acquisition.​

Aravind, A., Sanchez, K., & Syrett, K.  2026. When and why parts count: Linking categorization and counting of partial objects. Language Learning and Development.

Syrett, K. 2024. Challenges and strategies for acquiring adjectives. Language and Linguistics Compass, 18(6). http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.70000

Syrett, K., & Becker, M. 2024. More hard words: Learning emotion and mental state adjectives from linguistic context. Language Acquisition.  https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2024.2329071

Gotowski, M., & Syrett, K. 2024. Using syntax and semantics to acquire subjective adjective meanings. Language Acquisition. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2024.2384556

Syrett, K. 2023. Syntactic bootstrapping with clausal complements of adjectives (commentary on Hacquard). Journal of Child Language.

Kennedy, C., & Syrett, K. 2022. Numerals denote degree quantifiers: Evidence from child language. In N. Gotzner & U. Sauerland (Eds.), Measurements, numerals, and scales: Essays in honour of Stephanie Solt (pp. 135-162). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

Davies, C., Syrett, K., Taylor, L., Wilkes, S., & Zuniga-Montanez, C. 2022. Supporting adjective learning across curriculum by 5-7 year-olds: Insights from psychological research. Language and Linguistics Compass: Education and Pedagogy. 

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Davies, C., Ebbels, S., Nicoll, H., Syrett, K., White, S., & Zuniga-Montanez, C. 2022. Supporting adjective learning by children with Developmental Language Disorder: Enhancing metalinguistic approaches. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 58(2), 629–650.

Syrett, K., & Aravind, A. 2022. Context sensitivity and the semantics of count nouns in the evaluation of partial objects by children and adults. Journal of Child Language, 49, 239-265.

Gotowski, M., & Syrett, K. 2020.  Investigating the hypothesis space of children's interpretation of comparatives. In M. Brown and A. Kohut (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 154-167). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Moyer, M., Husnain, Z., & Syrett, K. 2019. Won’t somebody think of the children? Beyond maximality with plural definite descriptions. In Megan M. Brown and Brady Dailey (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 441-443). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.0

Syrett, K., Latourrette, A., Ferguson, B., & Waxman, S. R. 2019. Crying helps, but being sad doesn’t: Infants constrain nominal reference using known verbs, not known adjectives. Cognition, 193. 

Syrett, K., & Gor, V. 2019. The perils of interpreting comparatives with pronouns for children and adults. In D. Altshuler and J. Rett (Eds.), The semantics of plurals, focus, degrees, and times: Essays in honor of Roger Schwarzschild (pp. 185-216). Dordrecht: Springer.

Syrett, K. 2018. The historical emergence and current study of semantics in acquisition. In Syrett, K. & Arunachalam, S. (Eds.), Semantics in language acquisition, Trends in Language Acquisition (TiLAR) Series (pp. 1-18). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Simon-Pearson, L., & Syrett, K. 2018. Assessing truth and speaker knowledge when utterances are not maximally true. In Anne B. Bertolini and Maxwell J. Kaplan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 708-721). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Syrett, K. 2018. Overt, covert, and clandestine operations: Ambiguity and ellipsis in acquisition. In K. Syrett & S. Arunachalam (Eds.), Semantics in language acquisition, Trends in Language Acquisition (TiLAR) Series (pp. 275-297). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Achimova, A., Syrett, K., Musolino, J., Déprez, V. 2017. Children’s developing knowledge of wh-/quantifier question-answer relations. Language Learning and Development, 1, 80-99. 

Arii, T., Syrett, K., & Goro, T. 2017. Investigating the form-meaning mapping in the acquisition of English and Japanese measure phrase comparatives. Natural Language Semantics, 25, 53-90. 

Arunachalam, S., Syrett, K., & Chen, Y. 2016. Lexical disambiguation in verb learning: Evidence from the intransitive frame in English and Mandarin Chinese. Frontiers in Psychology (Language Sciences), 7, 1-14.

Syrett, K., & Musolino, J. All together now: Collectivity, distributivity, and the semantics of together in child and adult language. 2016. Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 23, 175-197.

Syrett, K., & Arunachalam, S. 2016. Young children’s developing expectations about the language of events. In Jennifer Scott and Deb Waughtal (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 375-390). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Gor, V., & Syrett, K. 2015. Picking up after sloppy children: What pronouns reveal about children’s analysis of English comparative constructions. In Elizabeth Grillo and Kyle Jepson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 191-203). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Syrett, K. 2015. Mapping properties to individuals in language acquisition. In Elizabeth Grillo and Kyle Jepson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 398-410). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Syrett, K., Arunachalam, S., & Waxman, S. R. 2014. Slowly but surely: Adverbs support verb learning in 2-year-olds. Language Learning and Development, 10, 263-278.

Syrett, K., & Kawahara, S. 2014. Production and perception of listener-oriented clear speech in child language. Journal of Child Language, 41, 1373-1389.

Syrett, K. 2013. The role of cardinality in the interpretation of measurement expressions. Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 20, 228-240.

Syrett, K., & Musolino, J. 2013. Collectivity, distributivity, and the interpretation of numerical expressions in child and adult language. Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 20, 259-291.

Syrett, K., Musolino, J., & Gelman, R. 2012a. How can syntax support number word acquisition? Language Learning and Development, 8, 146-176.

Syrett, K., Musolino, J., & Gelman, R. 2012b. Number word acquisition: Bootstrapping, cardinality and beyond. (reply to commentaries). Language Learning and Development, 8, 190-195.

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., 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. 2010. 30-month-olds use the distribution and meaning of adverbs to interpret novel adjectives. Language Learning and Development, 6, 258-282.

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 Kamil Ud Deen, Jun Nomura, Barbara Schulz, & Bonnie D. Schwartz (Eds.), Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, Honolulu, HI, Vol. 2 (pp. 353-364). Cambridge, Mass: UConn Occasional Papers in Linguistics 4.

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 Alejna Brugos, Linnea Micciulla, & Christine E. Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 340-349). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.