Janet Dean Fodor
Janet Dean Fodor | |
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Fodor in 2011 | |
| Born | April 12, 1942 |
| Died | August 28, 2023 (aged 81) |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Somerville College, Oxford |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psycholinguistics |
| Institutions | CUNY Graduate Center |
| Doctoral advisor | Noam Chomsky, James Thomson |
Janet Dean Fodor (April 12, 1942 – August 28, 2023) was distinguished professor emerita of linguistics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her primary field was psycholinguistics, and her research interests included human sentence processing, prosody, learnability theory and L1 (first-language) acquisition.