Sharon Inkelas

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Sharon Inkelas
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Inkelas in 2025
OccupationLinguist
Academic background
Alma mater Stanford University

Sharon Inkelas is a Professor and former Chair of the Linguistics Department at the University of California, Berkeley. [1]

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Education and career

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.

Honors

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]

Personal

Inkelas is also a violinist: she played for the symphony orchestra of Stanford University and as of 2009 is a member of the symphony orchestra of the University of California, Davis . [9]

Selected publications

References

  1. "Sharon Inkelas". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  2. "Ph.D. Alumni | Department of Linguistics". linguistics.stanford.edu. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  3. "Hellman Fellows » Sharon Inkelas". www.hellmanfellows.org. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  4. "Faculty adviser on sexual harassment/violence named". Berkeley News. 5 June 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  5. "Sharon INKELAS - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  6. "September 2017 Member Spotlight: Sharon Inkelas | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  7. "Executive Committee (1925 - 2018) | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  8. "Linguistic Society of America List of Fellows by Year" . Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  9. "Symphony Orchestra Roster - Music". Music. Retrieved 1 September 2018.