John Goldsmith (linguist)
John Goldsmith | |
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Born | 1951 |
Alma mater | MIT, Swarthmore |
Awards | Fellow of the AAAS |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Phonology, Generative grammar |
Institutions | University of Chicago, Indiana University |
Doctoral advisor | Morris Halle |
John Anton Goldsmith (born 1951) is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, with appointments in linguistics and computer science.[1][2]
Biography
Goldsmith obtained his B.A. at Swarthmore College in 1972, and completed his PhD in Linguistics at MIT in 1976, under the linguist Morris Halle.[3] He was on the faculty of the Department of Linguistics at Indiana University[4] before joining the University of Chicago in 1984. He has taught at the LSA Linguistic Institutes and has held visiting appointments at many universities, such as McGill, Harvard, and UCSD. In 2007, Goldsmith was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[5]
Research
Goldsmith's research ranges from phonology to computational linguistics.[6] His PhD thesis introduced autosegmental phonology; the idea that phonological phenomena is a collection of parallel tiers with individual segments, each representing certain features of speech.[7] His more recent research focuses on unsupervised learning of linguistic structure (as demonstrated by the Linguistica project,[8] a body of software that tries to automatically analyze the morphology of a language), as well as extending computational linguistics algorithms to bioinformatics.
Books
- John A Goldsmith, Bernard Laks, Battle in the Mind Fields, University of Chicago Press, 2018
External links
- Goldsmith's homepage Archived 2009-12-04 at the Wayback Machine
- Autosegmental phonology (Goldsmith's doctoral dissertation)
- Goldsmith's 2014 lecture at the University of Chicago
References
- ^ "Faculty | Department of Computer Science | The University of Chicago". cs.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-12.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "John Goldsmith". University of Chicago Department of Linguistics. Archived from the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
- ^ "Alumni and their Dissertations – MIT Linguistics". linguistics.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
- ^ Botne, Robert. "African Linguistics at IU". Archived from the original on 2016-05-11. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
- ^ "List of Active Members by Class" (PDF). American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
- ^ "John A. Goldsmith - Citations Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
- ^ Leben, Will (2016-06-09). "Autosegmental Phonology". Autosegmental Phonology. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.365. ISBN 9780199384655.
- ^ "Linguistica home page 2". people.cs.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
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