Donca Steriade

Donca Steriade (born 1951) is a professor of Linguistics at MIT.[1] Prior to this, she was a professor of Linguistics at UCLA. She earned her Ph.D. from MIT's Department of Linguistics and Philosophy in 1982, her M.A. from Université Laval in 1976, and her B.A. (licență) in Philology from the University of Bucharest in 1974.[2] She was inducted as LSA Fellow in 2015.[3][4]

Research

Steriade's research focuses on phonology and morphophonology, and she is now one of the world's leading phonologists, especially as pertaining to her leading work on underspecification and neutralization.[5] She began her academic career studying classics in Bucharest, but left after her father emigrated to Canada.[6] She later matriculated to MIT to study under Morris Halle to investigate the universal elements of language.[7] Her dissertation was entitled, "Greek prosodies and the nature of syllabification".[8] She has since worked on a range of Indo-European languages and has published and co-published broadly, including journal articles, book chapters, and the widely-cited books Phonetically Based Phonology[9] and Linguistics: An Introduction to Linguistic Theory.[2]

Key publications

  • Steriade, Donca (2001) Directional asymmetries in place assimilation: A perceptual account. In The Role of Speech Perception in Phonology, eds. E. Hume and K. Johnson, 219-250. New York: Academic Press.
  • Steriade, Donca (2000) Paradigm uniformity and the phonetics-phonology boundary. In Papers in Laboratory Phonology V: Acquisition and the Lexicon, eds. M. B. Broe and J. B. Pierrehumbert, 313-334. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Steriade, Donca (1995) Markedness and underspecification. In J. Goldsmith (ed.) The Handbook of Phonological Theory. Oxford: Blackwell. 114-174.
  • Steriade, Donca (1988) Reduplication and syllable transfer in Sanskrit and elsewhere. Phonology 5.73-155.
  • Steriade, Donca (1987) Locality conditions and feature geometry. Proceedings of NELS 17. 595-618.

References

  1. ↑ "Donca Steriade". Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  2. 1 2 Hayes, Bruce; et al., eds. (2013). Linguistics: An Introduction to Linguistic Theory. John Wiley & Sons. pp. x.
  3. ↑ "Announcing the LSA Fellows Class of 2015 | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  4. ↑ "LSA Fellows By Name | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  5. ↑ "Happy Birthday, Morris Halle". The New Yorker. 2013-07-19. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  6. ↑ Squire, Larry R. (2004). The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography, Volume 4. p. 495. ISBN 0-12-660246-8.
  7. ↑ "Emeritus: Sound reasoning". MIT News. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  8. ↑ Steriade, Donca (1982). "Greek prosodies and the nature of syllabification". Dissertation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  9. ↑ Hayes, Bruce; et al. (2004). Phonetically Based Phonology. Cambridge University Press.
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