Janet Dean Fodor was an American linguist born April 12, 1942, who grew up in England and died August 28, 2023. She was a distinguished professor emerita of psycholinguistics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, having earned her PhD at MIT under Noam Chomsky after a BA and MA from Somerville College, Oxford. Her research addressed human sentence processing, prosody, and learnability theory, including a two-stage model of parsing developed with Lyn Frazier and work on how prosody shapes comprehension and on the mental representation of empty categories in sentence structure. She was elected president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1997, held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1992, and was a corresponding fellow of the British Academy from 2014.
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Death DateSourced to the subject's own account Death YearSourced to the subject's own account FieldSourced to the subject's own account NationalitySourced to the subject's own account Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountCo-developed with Lyn Frazier a two-stage model of human sentence parsing, and researched the role of prosody in sentence comprehension. 1 In the Other Atlases
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Janet Dean Fodor (née Dean; April 12, 1942, August 28, 2023) was an American linguist and a distinguished professor emerita at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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Her primary field was psycholinguistics, and her research interests included human sentence processing, prosody, learnability theory and L1 (first-language) acquisition.
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Fodor and Lyn Frazier proposed a new two-stage model of parsing human sentences and the syntactic analysis of these sentences.
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