Sharon Inkelas | |
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Occupation | Linguist |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Stanford University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of California,Berkeley |
Main interests | Phonology,Morphology,Reduplication,Language acquisition,Turkish language |
Sharon Inkelas is a Professor and former Chair of the Linguistics Department at the University of California,Berkeley. [1]
Inkelas completed her Bachelor of Arts in mathematics at Pomona College in 1984 and received her PhD in linguistics at Stanford University in 1989 with a dissertation,"Prosodic Constituency in the Lexicon," supervised by Paul Kiparsky. [2] In 1990,she arrived at UC Berkeley as a Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science research fellow and became a faculty member at Berkeley in 1992. She was a Hellman Fellow in 1995. [3] She was named the special faculty adviser to the chancellor on sexual violence/sexual harassment for a three-year term,beginning on July 24,2017. [4]
Inkelas is noted for her work on phonology interfaces and particularly the interaction between morphology and phonology. [5] Her research interests include cophonology theory,reduplication,affix ordering,child phonology,and the analysis of Turkish.
Inkelas has long been actively involved in the Linguistic Society of America,serving on their executive committee from 2016-2018. [6] [7] In 2020,Inkelas was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. [8]
Inkelas is also a violinist:she played for the symphony orchestra of Stanford University and as of 2009 [update] is a member of the symphony orchestra of the University of California,Davis . [9]
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