Janet Dean Fodor
| Janet Dean Fodor | |
|---|---|
| Fields | Psycholinguistics |
| Institutions | CUNY Graduate Center |
| Alma mater | MIT, Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | Noam Chomsky, James Thomson |
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
- 1 2 3 "Janet Dean Fodor". The Graduate Center. CUNY. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ↑ "Bios & Profiles". Faculty. CUNY. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ↑ Andrew M. Colman (2015). "Equilibrium hypothesis". A Dictionary of Psychology. OUP Oxford. p. 253. ISBN 978-0-19-105784-7.
- ↑ "Janet Dean Fodor". www.gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
- ↑ "Presidents". Linguistics Society of America. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ↑ "British Academy announces 42 new fellows". Times Higher Education. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.