Adele Goldberg (linguist), Date of Birth

    

Adele Goldberg (linguist)

American linguist

Date of Birth: 09-Nov-1963

Profession: computer scientist, linguist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Adele Goldberg (linguist)

  • Adele Eva Goldberg (born November 9, 1963) is an American linguist, best known for the construction grammar in the tradition of cognitive linguistics. Goldberg's research focus is on the psychology of language, including theoretical and experimental aspects of grammar and its representation, acquisition of form-function correspondences, and syntactic priming.
  • Her works aim to illuminate parallels between language and other cognitive processes. She is best known for her work on constructions: grammatical pairings of form and functions that are related to one another in a systematic network of learned knowledge; statistical preemption: the idea that competition between grammatical constructions in context can account for the ill-formedness of certain expressions that would otherwise be licensed; the creation and development of the novel construction-learning paradigm: which is akin to learning novel words with novel meanings; and the suggestion that both statistics (particularly in the form of skewed input) and the functions of constructions play an important role in learning. She argues that the functions of constructions often help demystify traditional linguistic puzzles such as island constraints, one-anaphora, and obligatory modifiers. With Francesca Citron, she investigates the neural processing of conventional metaphors and their physical and emotional correlates. Since 2004, she has been Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at Princeton University.
  • From 1997 to 2004, she was Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
  • From 1997 to 1998, she was Associate Professor of Linguistics and from 1992 to 1997 Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego.

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