Sharon Inkelas
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Sharon Inkelas is a Professor and Chair of the Linguistics
Department at the University of California, Berkeley
. She specializes in phonology
interfaces and particularly in the interaction between morphology
and phonology.
Inkelas completed her Bachelor of Arts in mathematics at Pomona College
in 1984 and then received her doctorate in linguistics at Stanford University
in 1989 with a dissertation, "Prosodic Constituency in the Lexicon," advised by Paul Kiparsky
. In 1990, she arrived at UC Berkeley as Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science research fellow, and became a professor at Berkeley in 1992. Her recent research pursuits include cophonology theory, affix ordering, child phonology, and analysis of Turkish
.
She has supervised 7 Ph.D. dissertations from 1996 to 2006.
Prof. Inkelas is also a violin
ist: she played for the symphony orchestra of Stanford University and is a member of the symphony orchestra of the University of California, Davis
http://hector.ucdavis.edu/ucdso/05Personnel/Inkelas.htm. She has two sons.
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
Department at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
. She specializes in phonology
Phonology
Phonology is, broadly speaking, the subdiscipline of linguistics concerned with the sounds of language. That is, it is the systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken human language, or the field of linguistics studying this use...
interfaces and particularly in the interaction between morphology
Morphology (linguistics)
In linguistics, morphology is the identification, analysis and description, in a language, of the structure of morphemes and other linguistic units, such as words, affixes, parts of speech, intonation/stress, or implied context...
and phonology.
Inkelas completed her Bachelor of Arts in mathematics at Pomona College
Pomona College
Pomona College is a private, residential, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. Founded in 1887 in Pomona, California by a group of Congregationalists, the college moved to Claremont in 1889 to the site of a hotel, retaining its name. The school enrolls 1,548 students.The founding member...
in 1984 and then received her doctorate in linguistics at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
in 1989 with a dissertation, "Prosodic Constituency in the Lexicon," advised by Paul Kiparsky
Paul Kiparsky
René Paul Viktor Kiparsky is a professor of linguistics at Stanford University. He is the son of the Russian-born linguist and Slavicist Valentin Kiparsky....
. In 1990, she arrived at UC Berkeley as Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science research fellow, and became a professor at Berkeley in 1992. Her recent research pursuits include cophonology theory, affix ordering, child phonology, and analysis of Turkish
Turkish language
Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...
.
She has supervised 7 Ph.D. dissertations from 1996 to 2006.
Prof. Inkelas is also a violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
ist: she played for the symphony orchestra of Stanford University and is a member of the symphony orchestra of the University of California, Davis
University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...
http://hector.ucdavis.edu/ucdso/05Personnel/Inkelas.htm. She has two sons.
Recent publications
- "Reduplication", in Keith Brown, ed., Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, ElsevierElsevierElsevier is a publishing company which publishes medical and scientific literature. It is a part of the Reed Elsevier group. Based in Amsterdam, the company has operations in the United Kingdom, USA and elsewhere....
: Oxford, pp. 417-419, 2006 - "Underspecification", in Keith Brown, ed., Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Elsevier: Oxford, pp. 224-226, 2006
- "The architecture and the implementation of a finite state pronunciation lexicon for Turkish", with Kemal Oflazer. Computer Speech and Language, pp. 80-106, 2006
- Reduplication: Doubling in Morphology, with Cheryl Zoll. Cambridge University PressCambridge University PressCambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...
. 2005. Review. - "Velar Fronting Revisited", with Yvan Rose, in Barbara Beachley, Amanda Brown & Fran Conlin (eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development; Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press
- "Turkish stress: a review", with C. Orhan Orgun, Phonology 20, pp. 139-161, 2003
- "J's rhymes: a longitudinal case study of language play", Journal of Child LanguageJournal of Child LanguageThe Journal of Child Language is an academic journal concerned with the use of language by children. It deals with all aspects of the scientific study of language behavior in children, the principles which underlie it, and the theories which may account for it.It publishes approximately 46 articles...
30, pp. 557-581, 2003