Janet Dean Fodor

Janet Dean Fodor
Alma mater MIT, Oxford
Scientific career
Fields Psycholinguistics
Institutions CUNY Graduate Center
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][3]

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.[4] She received her Ph.D. in 1970 from MIT,[5] looking at the challenge posed by opaque contexts for semantic compositionality.

In 1988, Fodor founded the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.[6] She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1992.[7] She was President of the Linguistic Society of America in 1997.[8] In 2014, she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.[9] A volume of papers in her honor, Explicit and Implicit Prosody in Sentence Processing, was published in 2015.[10]

She was married to Jerry Alan Fodor until his death in 2017.

Selected Works

  • Argyle, Michael & Janet Dean. 1965. Eye Contact, Distance and Affiliation. Sociometry 28, 289-304.
  • Fodor, Janet Dean. 1970. The linguistic description of opaque contexts, PhD thesis, MIT. Published by Garland in 1979; republished by Routledge in 2014.
  • Fodor, Janet Dean. 1977. Semantics: theories of meaning in generative grammar. Thomas Y. Crowell Co., publisher. ISBN 978-0690008661
  • Fodor, Janet Dean and Fernanda Ferreira (eds.) 1998. Reanalysis in sentence processing. Springer Verlag.

References

  1. 1 2 "Janet Dean Fodor". The Graduate Center. CUNY. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Bios & Profiles". Faculty. CUNY. Archived from the original on 8 April 2013. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2017-11-04.
  4. ↑ Elsevier's Dictionary of Psychological Theories. Elsevier. 2006. p. 194. ISBN 9780444517500.
  5. ↑ "Alumni and their Dissertations – MIT Linguistics". linguistics.mit.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-04.
  6. ↑ "Janet Dean Fodor". www.gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
  7. ↑ "Janet Dean Fodor Guggenheim Fellow". John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  8. ↑ "Presidents". Linguistics Society of America. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
  9. ↑ "British Academy announces 42 new fellows". Times Higher Education. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  10. ↑ Explicit and Implicit Prosody in Sentence Processing. Springer. 2015. ISBN 978-3-319-12961-7.


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