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Janet Dean Fodor
American linguist (1942–2023) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Janet Dean Fodor (April 12, 1942 – August 28, 2023)[2] was distinguished professor emerita of linguistics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.[3] Her primary field was psycholinguistics,[4] and her research interests included human sentence processing, prosody, learnability theory and L1 (first-language) acquisition.[3][5]
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Janet Dean Fodor | |
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![]() Fodor in 2011 | |
Born | April 12, 1942 |
Died | August 28, 2023(2023-08-28) (aged 81)[1] |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oxford University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Psycholinguistics |
Institutions | CUNY Graduate Center |
Doctoral advisor | Noam Chomsky, James Thomson |
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