John Goldsmith (linguist)

Template:Short description Template:Infobox scientist John Anton Goldsmith (born 1951) is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, with appointments in linguistics and computer science.<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Dead link</ref><ref name="UChicago Bio">Template:Cite web</ref>

Biography

Goldsmith obtained his B.A. at Swarthmore College in 1972, and completed his PhD in Linguistics at MIT in 1976, under the linguist Morris Halle.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was on the faculty of the Department of Linguistics at Indiana University<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> before joining the University of Chicago in 1984. He has taught at the LSA Linguistic Institutes and has held visiting appointments at many universities, such as McGill, Harvard, and UCSD. In 2007, Goldsmith was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.<ref name="American Academy of Arts Sciences">Template:Cite web</ref>

Research

Goldsmith's research ranges from phonology to computational linguistics.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> His PhD thesis introduced autosegmental phonology; the idea that phonological phenomena is a collection of parallel tiers with individual segments, each representing certain features of speech.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> His more recent research focuses on unsupervised learning of linguistic structure (as demonstrated by the Linguistica project,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> a body of software that tries to automatically analyze the morphology of a language), as well as extending computational linguistics algorithms to bioinformatics.

Books

• John A Goldsmith, Bernard Laks, Battle in the Mind Fields, University of Chicago Press, 2018

External links

• Goldsmith's homepage Template:Webarchive
• Autosegmental phonology (Goldsmith's doctoral dissertation)
• Goldsmith's 2014 lecture at the University of Chicago

References

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