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Professor Janet Dean Fodor FBA

Theoretical and experimental psycholinguistics; multi-language studies of psychological mechanisms for decoding the structure and meaning of sentences; modelling the process of grammar acquisition by children
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Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2014
Year of death
2023
Subjects
Linguistics
Sections
Linguistics and Philology
Website
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Linguistics/Faculty-Bios/Janet-Dean-Fodor

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The Graduate Center, City University of New York Distinguished Professor of Linguistics

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