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<div><p>Renowned cognitive scientist and linguist Ray Jackendoff spoke in the Department of Linguistics Linguistic Circle colloquium series as a departmental capstone speaker, on Monday, September 18, 2017. Details are <a href="/linguistics/news-events/linguistics-circle-and-graduate-proseminar" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Dr. Jackendoff is Seth Merrin Professor of Philosophy and co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Boston. He is also a recent recipient of the Rumelhart Prize for distinguished contributions to cognitive science (click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8W4tn8rso4" rel="nofollow">here</a> for his Rumelhart Prize lecture at the 2014 meeting of the Cognitive Science Society). </p><p>
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<p>It is difficult to overstate Jackendoff's significance to the fields of linguistics and cognitive science. Among many other things, he is the developer of a unified theory of phrase structure (called X'-syntax), one of the first linguists to link linguistic semantics to conceptual structure, a scholar of music cognition and a specialist in language evolution (see his famous <a href="https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/jackendoff/papers/FacultyofLanguage.pdf" rel="nofollow">2005 rebuttal to Chomsky</a>, co-authored with Steven Pinker).</p><p>Most recently he has begun to develop a new framework for morphology, the topic of his LingCircle talk, <a href="http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/sites/default/files/attached-files/jackendoff_abstract_0.pdf" rel="nofollow">Relational Morphology in the Mental Lexicon</a>. His visit is jointly sponsored by the Institute of Cognitive Science. He gave the ICS <a href="http://www.colorado.edu/ics/colloquium-schedule" rel="nofollow">Distinguished Speakers</a> colloquium on the Friday prior. </p></div>
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