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Updated September 2016 Janet Dean Fodor CURRICULUM VITAE Address updated September 2016 Janet Dean Fodor CURRICULUM VITAE Address: Ph.D. Program in Linguistics Graduate Center of the City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Telephone: 212-817-8502 Education: B.A. 1964 Oxford University (Psychology and Philosophy) M.A. 1966 Oxford University Ph.D. 1970 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Linguistics) Employment: 1967-68 Assistant Lecturer, University College, London 1968-69 Research Fellow, Tutor, Cambridge University 1970-71 Lecturer and Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1971-72 Visiting Lecturer (3/4 time), Harvard University; Research Associate (1/4 time), Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1970-72 Visiting Lecturer, Harvard Summer School (Summers) 1973-76 Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut 1974 Faculty, Linguistics Institute; University of Massachusetts (Summer) 1976-81 Associate Professor, University of Connecticut (Tenure granted 1979) 1978 Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Spring) 1980 Visiting Scholar, Stanford University (Spring) 1981-86 Professor, University of Connecticut 1985 Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University (Spring) 1985-86 Joint appointment, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut 1986- Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center of the City University of New York (Current Position) 1987 Visiting Lecturer, University of Toronto (Summer) Field of Specialization: Linguistics Research Interests: Psycholinguistics: Sentence processing, language learnability, prosody Professional Societies: Linguistic Society of America (President 1997) Association for Computational Linguistics Scholarships and Grants: State Scholarship, U.K., 1961-64 Fulbright Travelling Fellowship, 1964-65 University of Connecticut Faculty Summer Fellowship, 1976 N.S.F. Local Course Improvement grant, 1977-79 A.C.L.S. grant, July 1, 1979 to May 31, 1980 "Parsing models for natural language" Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant, 1980-1982 "Proposal for a Visiting Scientist" University of Connecticut Research Foundation Grant, 1981-1982 "Experimental Studies of Sentence Processing" University of Connecticut Research Foundation Grant, 1982 "Funds to Pay Subjects in Psycholinguistic Experiments" University of Connecticut Research Foundation Grant, 1981 "Major Item of Equipment" National Science Foundation Grant (with Stephen Crain) 1985-1987 "Competence and Performance in Child Language" University of Connecticut Research Foundation award to support graduate research assistant, 1986 National Science Foundation grant, 1988-1989 "Conference on Sentence Processing" Janet Dean Fodor - 2 (grants, continued): John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1992-1993 PSC-CUNY Faculty Research Award "Priming and probing for NP-trace" 1994-96 CUNY Collaborative Incentive Grant "Computational, Linguistic, and Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Japanese Sentence Processing" (with Virginia Teller and Dianne Bradley) 1995-97 PSC-CUNY Faculty Research Award “A dynamic computational model of natural language acquisition”, 1999-2000 PSC-CUNY Faculty Research Award “Characteristics of the input sample for syntax acquisition”, 2000 - 2002 National Science Foundation, 2003-2004: Doctoral Dissertation Research: Linguistic Uses of Fundamental Frequency in Mandarin and English: Implications for Second-Language Speakers. Co-PI: Tanya L. Viger. PSC-CUNY-30 Research Award 1999-2000 A Dynamic Computational Model of Natural Language Acquisition. PSC-CUNY-31,32 Research Award 2000-2002 Characteristics of the Input Sample for Syntax Acquisition. CUNY Collaborative Incentive Research Grant (with W. Sakas) 2000-2002 Setting Syntactic Parameters: A Computational Analysis of Child-directed Speech. PSC-CUNY-35 and PSC-CUNY-36 Research Award 2004-2006 Effects of Input on Language Acquisition: A Computer Simulation Study. PSC-CUNY-07 Research Award 2004-2005 Setting Syntactic Parameters. PSC-CUNY TRADA-42-216 Research Award 2011 Language Materials for a Priming Study of Implicit Prosody. National Science Foundation, 2012-13: funding for the special session “Grammars and Parsers: Toward a Unified Theory of Language Knowledge and Use” at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, at CUNY Graduate Center, March 2012. Co-PI: Eva M. Fernández. PSC-CUNY-44 Research Award 2013-2014 “Prosodic facilitation for comprehending complex sentences.” PSC-CUNY-47 Research Award 2015-2017 “Prosodic analysis of complex sentences in French.” PUBLICATIONS Books and Monographs: Fodor, J. D. 1977/1980. Semantics: Theories of Meaning in Generative Grammar. T. Y. Crowell, New York, and Harvester Press, 1977. Paperback edition, Harvard University Press, 1980. Ferreira, F. & J. D. Fodor (eds.) 1998. Reanalysis in Sentence Processing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Fodor, J. D. 2014 The Linguistic Description of Opaque Contexts, republished in Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics. (Originally published by Garland Publishing in 1979.) Fodor, J. D. and Fernández, E. M. (eds.) 2015 Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Special Issue on Grammars and Parsers: Toward a unified theory of language knowledge and use. Volume 44:1, 2015. Chapters in Books: Fodor, J. D. 1970. Formal linguistics and formal logic. In New Horizons in Linguistics, J. Lyons (ed.), Penguin Books, pp. 198-214. Reprinted in The Mathematical Structure of Natural Languages, E. Bach, W. Marsh, and W. Savitch (eds.), 1989, D. Reidel Publishing Co. Fodor, J. D. 1979. In defence of the truth value gap. In Syntax and Semantics Vol. 11, C. -Y. Oh and D. Dinneen, (eds.), Academic Press. Fodor, J. D. 1980. Superstrategy. In Sentence Processing: Studies in Psycholinguistics Presented to Merrill Garrett, W. E. Cooper and E. C. T. Walker (eds.), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Fodor, J. D. 1982. The mental representation of quantifiers. In Processes, Beliefs and Questions, S. Peters, E. Saarinen (eds.) D. Reidel Publishing Co. Crain S. and J. D. Fodor. 1984. How can grammars help parsers? In Natural Language Parsing: Psychological, Computational and Theoretical Perspectives, D. R. Dowty, L. Karttunen and A. Zwicky (eds.), Cambridge University Press. Fodor, J. D. and S. Crain. 1985. On the innateness of Subjacency. In Proceedings of the First Eastern States Conference on Linguistics, Ohio State University, G. Alvarez, B. Brodie, T. McCoy (eds.) Fodor, J. D. and S. Crain. 1985. Rules and constraints in sentence processing. In Proceedings of North Janet Dean Fodor - 3 Eastern Linguistic Society 15, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Fodor, J. D. 1986. Understanding without knowing how to behave. In Proceedings of the Conference on Foundations of Cognitive Science, Z. Pylyshyn (ed.). Fodor, J. D. and S. Crain. 1987. Simplicity and generality of rules in language acquisition. In Mechanisms of Language Acquisition. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Carnegie-Mellon Conference on Cognition, B. MacWhinney (ed.), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Fodor, J.D. 1989. Learning the periphery. In Learnability and Linguistic Theory, R. Matthews and W. Demopoulos (eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Expanded version of paper by same title in CUNYForum, 1986.) Fodor, J.D. and S. Crain. 1989. Competence and performance in child language. In E. Dromi (ed.) Language and Cognition: A Developmental Perspective, Ablex Publishing Corp, Norwood, NJ. Fodor, J. D. 1990. Parameters and parameter-setting in a phrase structure grammar. In L. Frazier and J. de Villiers (eds.) Language Processing and Language Acquisition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. Fodor, J. D. 1990. Thematic roles and modularity: Comments on the chapters by Frazier and Tanenhaus. In G. Altmann (ed.) Cognitive Models of Speech Processing: Psycholinguistic and Computational Perspectives, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. Fodor, J.D. 1991. Sentence processing and the mental grammar. In Foundational Issues in Natural Language Processing, P. Sells and T. Wasow (eds.), MIT Press. Fodor, J. D. 1992. Learnability of Phrase Structure Grammars. In R. Levine (ed.) Formal Linguistics: Theory and Implementation, Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science; University of British Columbia Press. Fodor, J. D. 1992. Islands, learnability and the lexicon. In H. Goodluck and M. Rochemont (eds.) Island Constraints: Theory, Acquisition and Processing, Kluwer Academic Press, Dordrecht. Fodor, J. D. 1993. Processing Empty Categories: A Question of Visibility. In G. Altmann and R. Shillcock (eds.) Cognitive Models of Speech Processing, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ. Sag, I. A. and Fodor, J. D. 1993. Agreement, Co-indexing and Reactivation: A Reply to Barss. Visibility. In G. Altmann and R. Shillcock (eds.) Cognitive Models of Speech Processing, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ. Fodor, J. D. 1994. How to obey the Subset Principle: Binding and Locality. In B. Lust, G. Hermon and J. Kornfilt (eds.) Binding, Dependencies and Learnability, Vol. 2 of Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Cross-linguistic Perspectives. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ. Inoue, A. and Fodor, J. D. 1995. Information-paced parsing of Japanese. In R. Mazuka and N. Nagai (eds.) 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