Selected Semantics Papers
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Papers with child participants are on the Child Language Acquisition page.
Zhu, Z., & Syrett, K. 2022. Do Mandarin count classifiers individuate: Experimental evidence from a quantity judgment task. In Özge Bakay, Breanna Pratley, Eva Neu, and Peyton Deal (Eds.), Proceedings of the 52nd Annual North East Linguistics Society (NELS) Vol. 3 (pp. 279-288). Amherst, MA: GLSA.
Moyer, M., & Syrett, K. 2021. The study of questions. WIREs Cognitive Science (Advanced Review).
Moyer, M., & Syrett, K. 2019. The semantics of questions. WIREs Cognitive Science (Primer).
Moyer, M., & Syrett, K. 2019. Contextual, lexical, and structural factors licensing Mention-Some embedded questions. In Eszter Ronai, Laura Stigliano and Yenan Sun (Eds.), Proceedings of the 54th Annual Chicago Linguistic Society (pp. 361-376). Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society.
Syrett, K. Distributivity. 2019. In C. Cummins & N. Katsos (Eds.), Oxford handbook of experimental semantics and pragmatics (pp. 143-155). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bary, C., Altshuler, D., Syrett, K., & de Swart, P. 2018. Factors licensing embedded present tense in speech reports. In Uli Sauerland and Stephanie Solt (Eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22 (pp. 127-142).
Law, J., & Syrett, K. 2016. Experimental evidence for the discourse potential of bare nouns in Mandarin. In Andrew Lamont and Katerina Tetzloff (Eds.), Proceedings of the 47th Annual North East Linguistics Society (NELS) Vol. 2 (pp. 231-240).Amherst, MA: GLSA.
Bajaj, V., & Syrett, K. 2016. –hii: Modality meets exclusivity. Proceedings of the Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC), vol. 22 (1). http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/
Syrett, K., & Koev, T. 2015. Experimental evidence for the truth conditional contribution and shifting information status of appositives. Journal of Semantics, 32, 525-577.