Janet Dean Fodor

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Janet Dean Fodor
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Fields Psycholinguistics
Institutions CUNY Graduate Center
Alma mater MIT, Oxford
Doctoral advisor Noam Chomsky, James Thomson

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Janet Dean Fodor (born 1942) is Distinguished Professor of linguistics at the City University of New York.[1] Her primary field is psycholinguistics,[2] and her research interests include human sentence processing, prosody, learnability theory and L1 (first-language) acquisition.[1]

Life

Born Janet Dean, she received her B.A. in 1964 and her M.A. in 1966, both from Oxford University. At Oxford she was a student of the social psychologist Michael Argyle, and their 'equilibrium hypothesis' for nonverbal communication became the basis for affiliative conflict theory: if participants feel the degree of intimacy suggested by a channel of nonverbal communication to be too high, they act to reduce the intimacy conveyed through other channels.[3] She received her Ph.D. in 1970 from MIT,[1] looking at the challenge posed by opaque contexts for semantic compositionality.

In 1988, Fodor founded the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.[4] She was President of the Linguistic Society of America in 1997.[5] In 2014, she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. [6]

She is married to Jerry Alan Fodor.

Works

  • (with Michael Argyle) 'Eye Contact, Distance and Affiliation', Sociometry, 1965
  • The linguistic description of opaque contexts, PhD thesis, MIT, 1970.
  • Semantics: theories of meaning in generative grammar, 1977
  • (ed. with Fernanda Ferreira) Reanalysis in sentence processing, 1998

References

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