Kristen Syrett
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Kristen Syrett is a linguist whose work focuses on language acquisition, psycholinguistics, semantics, and pragmatics.[1]
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.[2]
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.[3][4] 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).[5]
