John Goldsmith (linguist)

John Anton Goldsmith is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, with appointments in linguistics and computer science.[1][2]

John Goldsmith
Alma materMIT, Swarthmore
AwardsFellow of the AAAS
Scientific career
FieldsPhonology, Generative grammar
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago, Indiana University
Doctoral advisorMorris Halle

Biography

He was educated at Swarthmore College, where he obtained his B.A. in 1972, and at MIT, where he completed his Ph.D. in Linguistics under Morris Halle in 1976.[3] He was on the faculty at the Department of Linguistics at Indiana University,[4] before joining the University of Chicago in 1984. He has also taught at the LSA Linguistic Institutes and has held visiting appointments at McGill, Harvard, and UCSD, among others. In 2007, Goldsmith was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[5]

Research

Goldsmith's research ranges from phonology to computational linguistics.[6] His Ph.D thesis introduced autosegmental phonology, which regards phonological phenomena as a collection of parallel tiers with individual segments representing certain features of speech.[7] His recent research deals with unsupervised learning of linguistic structure (particularly exemplified by his Linguistica project,[8] a body of software which attempts to automatically analyze the morphology of a language), as well as in extending computational linguistics algorithms to bioinformatics.

Books
  • John A Goldsmith, Bernard Laks, Battle in the Mind Fields, University of Chicago Press, 2018
gollark: How about the ability to give one dragon per trophy a custom code?
gollark: Too long.
gollark: Or `Force`.
gollark: How about `Horse`?
gollark: Plus probably lots of five-letter asteroids and stuff.

References
  1. "Faculty | Department of Computer Science | The University of Chicago". cs.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
  2. "John Goldsmith". University of Chicago Department of Linguistics. Archived from the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  3. "Alumni and their Dissertations – MIT Linguistics". linguistics.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
  4. Botne, Robert. "African Linguistics at IU". Archived from the original on 2016-05-11. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
  5. "List of Active Members by Class" (PDF). American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  6. "John A. Goldsmith - Citations Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
  7. Leben, Will (2016-06-09). "Autosegmental Phonology". doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.001.0001/acrefore-9780199384655-e-365. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. "Linguistica home page 2". people.cs.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-12.


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