Donca Steriade

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Donca Steriade (born 1951 in Bucharest) is a Romanian-American professor of Linguistics at MIT, specializing in phonological theory. [1]

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Education

She began her academic career studying classics in Bucharest, after earning her B.A. (licență) in Philology from the University of Bucharest in 1974. [2] [3] She left Romania after her father emigrated to Canada. [4] (She is the daughter of neuroscientist Mircea Steriade.) She earned her M.A. from Université Laval in 1976, She studied for her PhD at the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy under Morris Halle. [5] Her 1982 dissertation is titled, "Greek prosodies and the nature of syllabification". [6]

After earning her PhD, she took up a position at UCLA [7] before returning to MIT to become Professor of Linguistics. [8]

Honors

Steriade was named Professor Honoris Causa by the Faculty of Letters at the University of Bucharest in 2017. [2] [3]

She was inducted as a LSA (Linguistics Society of America) Fellow in 2015. [9] [10] She was invited to give the Edward Sapir lecture at the 2009 LSA Linguistic Institute [11] and she was an instructor at the 2007 LSA Linguistic Institute. [12]

Research

Steriade's research focuses on phonology and morphophonology, and she is considered a leading contributor to theories of underspecification (Steriade 1995) and neutralization (Steriade 2007). [13] She has also researched the basic units of rhythm in language. [14] She has worked on a range of Indo-European languages and has published and co-published broadly, including journal articles and book chapters. [15] She is a co-editor of the widely cited volume, Phonetically Based Phonology (Hayes et al. 2004), and co-author of the popular textbook, Linguistics: An Introduction to Linguistic Theory (Hayes et al. 1999).

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  2. 1 2 WordPress, Lucian E. Marin-Built for (2017-11-13). "Steriade honored as "Profesor honoris causa" - Bucharest". Whamit!. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
  3. 1 2 "Donca Steriade va primi distincția de Professor Honoris Causa al Universității din București". UniBuc (in Romanian). 2017-11-07. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
  4. ↑ Squire, Larry R. (2004). The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography, Volume 4. p. 495. ISBN   0-12-660246-8.
  5. ↑ "Emeritus: Sound reasoning". MIT News. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  6. ↑ "Alumni and their Dissertations – MIT Linguistics". linguistics.mit.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
  7. ↑ "Donca Steriade's Homepage". linguistics.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
  8. ↑ "Faculty – MIT Linguistics". linguistics.mit.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
  9. ↑ "Announcing the LSA Fellows Class of 2015 | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  10. ↑ "LSA Fellows By Name | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  11. ↑ Garrett, Andrew. "Report on the 2009 LSA Institute". Linguistic Society of America. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  12. ↑ "Report on the 2007 Linguistic Institute". Linguistic Society of America. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  13. ↑ "Happy Birthday, Morris Halle". The New Yorker. 2013-07-19. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  14. ↑ "Donca Steriade: Searching for the building blocks of language". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. May 2015. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
  15. ↑ "D. Steriade | Semantic Scholar". www.semanticscholar.org. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
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