Kristen Syrett

List of John Benjamins publications in which Kristen Syrett is involved.

Book series

Language Faculty and Beyond

Internal and External Variation in Linguistics

Edited by Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Pierre Pica

ISSN 1877-6531

Title

Semantics in Language Acquisition

Edited by Kristen Syrett and Sudha Arunachalam

This volume presents the state of the art of recent research on the acquisition of semantics. Covering topics ranging from infants' initial acquisition of word meaning to the more sophisticated mapping between structure and meaning in the syntax-semantics interface, and the relation between logical… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 24] 2018. vi, 391 pp.

Syrett, Kristen 2018 Chapter 12. Overt, covert, and clandestine operations: Ambiguity and ellipsis in acquisition Semantics in Language Acquisition, Syrett, Kristen and Sudha Arunachalam (eds.), pp. 275–298 | Chapter

One of the major challenges on the path to becoming an adult speaker arises from ambiguous sentences – sentences that are in principle compatible with multiple interpretations. In this chapter, I review experimental evidence from a series of studies run with children age four to six years, focusing… read more

Syrett, Kristen 2018 Chapter 1. The historical emergence and current study of semantics in acquisition Semantics in Language Acquisition, Syrett, Kristen and Sudha Arunachalam (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter

Syrett, Kristen, Jennifer R. Austin, Liliana Sánchez, Christina Germak, Anne Lingwall, Silvia Perez-Cortes, Anthony Arias-Amaya and Hannah Baker 2017 The influence of conversational context and the developing lexicon on the calculation of scalar implicatures: Insights from Spanish-English bilingual children Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:2, pp. 230–264 | Article

Although monolingual children do not generally calculate the upper-bounded scalar implicature (SI) associated with ‘some’ without additional support, monolingual Spanish-speaking children have been reported to do so with algunos (‘some’), and further distinguish algunos from unos. Given… read more

Déprez, Viviane, Kristen Syrett and Shigeto Kawahara 2012 Interfacing information and prosody: French wh-in-situ questions Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2010: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Leiden 2010, Franco, Irene, Sara Lusini and Andrés Saab (eds.), pp. 135–154 | Article

We present experimental evidence bearing on Cheng and Rooryck’s (2000) proposal that French wh-in-situ questions are licensed by an intonational morpheme also present in yes-no questions and their claim that such questions are ungrammatical without a rising contour. While most participants produced… read more