Biography:Géraldine Legendre
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Géraldine Legendre (born 1953)[1] is a French-American cognitive scientist and linguist known for her work on French grammar,[2] on mathematical models for the development of syntax in natural languages including harmonic grammar[3] and Optimality Theory,[4] and on universal grammar and innate syntactic ability of humans in natural language.[5] She is a professor of cognitive science at Johns Hopkins University and the chair of the Johns Hopkins Cognitive Science Department.
Education and career
Legendre studied English literature at the University of Tours, earning a licentiate in 1974. She went to the University of California, San Diego for graduate study, and she completed her M.A. in 1984 and her Ph.D. in 1987. Her dissertation, Topics in French Syntax, was supervised by David M. Perlmutter and Sandra Chung.[6]
She became an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder and earned tenure there in 1994. In 1995, she moved to Johns Hopkins University, and in 2000, she was promoted to full professor. She became department chair in 2018.[6]
Books
Legendre is the author of the book Topics in French Syntax (Routledge, 1994)[2] and the coauthor with Paul Smolensky of the two-volume The Harmonic Mind (MIT Press, 2006).[3] She is also a co-editor of edited volumes including Optimality-Theoretic Syntax (MIT Press, 2001)[4] and Optimality-Theoretic Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics: From Uni- To Bidirectional Optimization (Oxford University Press, 2016).
References
- ↑ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2021-04-04
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Review of Topics in French Syntax: Kathleen Connors, Language, doi:10.2307/416194, JSTOR 416194
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Reviews of The Harmonic Mind: William J. Idsardi, Artificial Intelligence, doi:10.1016/j.artint.2006.10.007; Harald Maurer (2009), Journal for General Philosophy of Science, doi:10.1007/s10838-009-9089-x, JSTOR 40390679; Joe Pater, Phonology, doi:10.1017/S0952675709001766, JSTOR 40467578; William Ramsey, Philosophical Books, doi:10.1111/j.1468-0149.2009.00488.x
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Reviews of Optimality-Theoretic Syntax: Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Language, JSTOR 4489832; Tanja Schmid, Journal of Linguistics, JSTOR 4176892; Ralf Vogel, Glot International
- ↑ Artificial grammar reveals inborn language sense, study shows, Johns Hopkins University, May 13, 2011, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110513112256.htm, retrieved 2021-04-04
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Curriculum vitae, Johns Hopkins University, January 2020, https://krieger.jhu.edu/cogsci/wp-content/uploads/sites/70/2015/10/LegendreCVJan2020.pdf, retrieved 2021-04-04
External links
- Faculty page from Johns Hopkins University
- Géraldine Legendre publications indexed by Google Scholar
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