Sharon Inkelas
Sharon Inkelas | |
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| Occupation | Linguist |
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| Alma mater | Stanford University |
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| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Main interests | Phonology, Morphology, Reduplication, Language acquisition, Turkish language |
Sharon Inkelas is a Professor and former Chair of the Linguistics Department at the University of California, Berkeley.[1]
Education and career
[edit]Inkelas completed her Bachelor of Arts in mathematics at Pomona College in 1984 and received her PhD in linguistics at Stanford University in 1989 with a dissertation, "Prosodic Constituency in the Lexicon," supervised by Paul Kiparsky.[2] In 1990, she arrived at UC Berkeley as a Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science research fellow and became a faculty member at Berkeley in 1992. She was a Hellman Fellow in 1995.[3] She was named the special faculty adviser to the chancellor on sexual violence/sexual harassment for a three-year term, beginning on July 24, 2017.[4]
Inkelas is noted for her work on phonology interfaces and particularly the interaction between morphology and phonology.[5] Her research interests include cophonology theory, reduplication, affix ordering, child phonology, and the analysis of Turkish.
Honors
[edit]Inkelas has long been actively involved in the Linguistic Society of America, serving on their executive committee from 2016-2018.[6][7] In 2020, Inkelas was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.[8]
Personal
[edit]Inkelas is also a violinist: she played for the symphony orchestra of Stanford University and as of 2009[update] is a member of the symphony orchestra of the University of California, Davis [1].[9]
Selected publications
[edit]- "Reduplication", in Keith Brown, ed., Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Elsevier: 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 Press. 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 Language 30, pp. 557–581, 2003
References
[edit]- ^ "Sharon Inkelas". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
- ^ "Ph.D. Alumni | Department of Linguistics". linguistics.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
- ^ "Hellman Fellows » Sharon Inkelas". www.hellmanfellows.org. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
- ^ "Faculty adviser on sexual harassment/violence named". Berkeley News. 2017-06-05. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
- ^ "Sharon INKELAS - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
- ^ "September 2017 Member Spotlight: Sharon Inkelas | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
- ^ "Executive Committee (1925 - 2018) | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
- ^ "Linguistic Society of America List of Fellows by Year". Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- ^ "Symphony Orchestra Roster - Music". Music. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
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