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Stephen R. Anderson

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Stephen Robert Anderson (born 1943)[1] is an American linguist. He is the Dorothy R. Diebold Professor of Linguistics at Yale University and was the 2007 president of the Linguistic Society of America.[2]

He received a B.S. in linguistics from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1966 and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969. Anderson taught at Harvard University from 1969 until 1975. He joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles in 1975. In 1988, he became a professor of cognitive science at Johns Hopkins University. Since 1994, he has been at Yale University.[3] Anderson was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1993, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999,[1] and the Linguistic Society of America in 2008. He is Vice President of CIPL, the Permanent International Committee of Linguists. A festschrift in his honor was edited in 2017 by Claire Bowern, Laurence Horn and Raffaella Zanuttini[4].

References

  1. ^ a b "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
  2. ^ http://www.lsadc.org/info/lsa-pres.cfm
  3. ^ "Curriculum Vitae". Stephen R. Anderson – Department of Linguistics Yale University. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
  4. ^ "On Looking into Words (and beyond)". Language Science Press. Retrieved 11 January 2018.