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John Goldsmith

Communications

#603

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#980

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#333

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Linguistics

#187

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#254

Historical Rank

#92

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John Goldsmith 's Degrees

Bachelors Linguistics University of Pennsylvania

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According to Wikipedia, John Anton Goldsmith is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, with appointments in linguistics and computer science. Biography Goldsmith obtained his B.A. at Swarthmore College in 1972, and completed his PhD in Linguistics at MIT in 1976, under the linguist Morris Halle. He was on the faculty of the Department of Linguistics at Indiana University before joining the University of Chicago in 1984. He has taught at the LSA Linguistic Institutes and has held visiting appointments at many universities, such as McGill, Harvard, and UCSD. In 2007, Goldsmith was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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John Goldsmith 's Published Works

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Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology (1990) (1143)
Unsupervised Learning of the Morphology of a Natural Language (2001) (872)
The handbook of phonological theory (2011) (611)
The Structure of Intonational Meaning: Evidence from English (1982) (352)
The Syllable (2009) (332)
Tone : a linguistic survey (1980) (285)
An algorithm for the unsupervised learning of morphology (2006) (157)
Autosegmental Studies in Bantu Tone (1984) (129)
The last phonological rule : reflections on constraints and derivations (1993) (113)
Whistler: a trainable text-to-speech system (1996) (92)
Vowel harmony in Khalkha Mongolian, Yaka, Finnish and Hungarian (1985) (91)
Studies in Compensatory Lengthening (1986) (76)
Syntax and human experience (1991) (76)
A Principled Exception to the Coordinate Structure Constraint in Papers from the General Session at the Twenty-First Regional Meeting. (1985) (74)
Ideology and Linguistic Theory: Noam Chomsky and the Deep Structure Debates (1995) (60)
Information theoretic approaches to phonological structure: the case of Finnish vowel harmony (2012) (57)
Tone and Accent, and Getting the Two Together (1987) (54)
Correspondence and identity constraints in two-level Optimality Theory (2000) (47)
Phonological theory : the essential readings (1999) (45)
English as a tone language (1981) (45)
The Handbook of Phonological Theory: Goldsmith/The Handbook of Phonological Theory (2011) (43)
Learning Phonological Categories (2009) (43)
Automatic Language-Specific Stemming in Information Retrieval (2000) (42)
Probabilistic Models of Grammar: Phonology as Information Minimization (2002) (40)
Segmentation and morphology (2010) (38)
Tones and features : phonetic and phonological perspectives (2011) (36)
Using eigenvectors of the bigram graph to infer morpheme identity (2002) (32)
Empiricism and Language Learnability (2015) (31)
SECONDARY LICENSING AND THE NONDOMINANT HAND IN ASL PHONOLOGY (1993) (29)
Linguistica: An automatic morphological analyzer (2001) (27)
Using Morphology and Syntax Together in Unsupervised Learning (2005) (26)
The structure of intonational meaning: Evidence from English By D. Robert Ladd, Jr. (review) (2015) (24)
Learning Inflectional Classes (2006) (23)
A Dynamic Computational Theory of Accent Systems (2004) (23)
Tone and Accent in Llogoori (1992) (21)
Stem Tone Patterns of the Lacustrine Bantu Languages (1987) (19)
On Information theory, entropy, and phonology in the 20th century (2000) (18)
Morphological Analogy: Only a Beginning (2008) (18)
A note on the genealogy of research traditions in modern phonology (1992) (18)
Automatic Collection and Analysis of GermanCompounds (1998) (17)
1. Autosegmental Studies in Bantu Tone: Introduction (1984) (17)
Complementizers and root sentences (1979) (16)
From Signatures to Finite State Automata (2004) (16)
Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology: An Introduction (1992) (15)
Generative phonology in the late 1940s* (2008) (14)
Voice assimilation in French obstruents: Categorical or gradient? (2011) (14)
Prosodic Trends in the Bantu Languages (1988) (12)
Computational Learning of Morphology (2017) (12)
Generative phonology : its origins , its principles , and its successors (2006) (11)
Linguistica 5: Unsupervised Learning of Linguistic Structure (2016) (11)
Probability for linguists (2007) (10)
Features impinging on tone (2011) (9)
Dealing with Prosody in a Text-to-Speech System (1999) (9)
Noam Chomsky: A life of dissent (1998) (9)
On tone in Sukuma (1985) (9)
Department of Linguistics (2001) (8)
Towards a new empiricism for linguistics (2010) (8)
A heuristic for morpheme discovery based on string edit distance (2005) (8)
The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and Information into the 21st Century, vol. 1: Philosophy of Science, Syntax and Semantics (review) (2005) (7)
On Comparing Linguistic Theories: Further Notes on the Generative Semantics/Interpretive Semantics Debate in American Linguistics (1998) (7)
Battle in the Mind Fields (2019) (7)
The SED heuristic for morpheme discovery: a look at Swahili (2005) (7)
12. Tone and Accent in the Xhosa Verbal System (1989) (6)
Rhythm, Quantity, and Tone in the Kinyarwanda Verb (2011) (6)
Refining the SED Heuristic for Morpheme Discovery: Another Look at Swahili (2005) (6)
Using eigenvectors of the bigram graph to infer grammatical features and categories (2002) (6)
The history of phonology in the twentieth century (2000) (5)
The evaluation metric in generative grammar (2011) (5)
An MDL-based approach to extracting subword units for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion (2010) (4)
2. Tone and Accent in Tonga (1984) (4)
Tone in the CiRuri Present Continuous (1986) (4)
Exploring variant definitions of pointer length in MDL (2006) (4)
Towards an sutosegmental theory of accent the case of Tonga (1981) (3)
From algorithms to generative grammar and back again (2004) (3)
Crossing the quantal boundaries of features: Subglottal resonances and Swabian diphthongs (2011) (3)
A group structure for strings : Towards a learning algorithm for morphophonology (2011) (2)
Topics in unsupervised language learning (2007) (2)
Disentangling autosegments: a response (1994) (2)
Tone: A linguistic survey ed. by Victoria A. Fromkin (review) (2015) (2)
The State of the Art - (a) Commercial Computers in Britain, June 1959 (1959) (2)
Evaluating the effectiveness of Unified Feature Theory and three other feature systems (2011) (2)
Colleagues: Richard B. Russell and His Apprentice, Lyndon B. Johnson (1993) (2)
Generative Phonology and its successors (2004) (2)
The history of phonology in the twentief century : an introduction (2000) (2)
Discovering and Counting Biomedical Verbs (2010) (2)
Natural language processing for named entities with word-internal information (2011) (1)
Language and Learning as Properties of Our Species (1993) (1)
Stephen Spender : journals, 1939-1983 (1986) (1)
The empiricist turn (2015) (1)
Grammar within a Neural Network (1994) (1)
American Descriptivist Morphology in the 1950s (2019) (1)
Geometrical morphology (2017) (1)
Theory , Kernels , Data , Methods (2010) (0)
James D. McCawley (1938-1999) (1999) (0)
Caribbean Report 19-08-1988 (1988) (0)
Voyage in the 'Beagle' (1978) (0)
Neonatal transport: a discussion. (1977) (0)
Lectures on Bubblemint and Grinding (2006) (0)
Stanford : building a ' prestige cartel ' (2001) (0)
Language and the Mind Sciences The First Four Generations (2016) (0)
The Zadko Telescope: a new southern hemisphere tool for education outreach (2010) (0)
Chomskyan (r)evolutions (review) (2012) (0)
Automatic Morphology (Summary) (2000) (0)
Computational approaches to induction (2015) (0)
Linguistics: Sound sculptor (2012) (0)
A Simplicity Principle for language acquisition (2015) (0)
Information theoretic approaches to phonological structure: the case of Finnish vowel harmony (2012) (0)
Belgium and Luxembourg. National report no. 149. (1988) (0)
La signature comp (1981) (0)
Appeal for Comments on Ethical Case Histories (1997) (0)
James Cosbie Ross—A profile (1987) (0)
Distributional learning of syntax (2015) (0)
J. Miller, Semantics and syntax . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. viii + 262. (1986) (0)
What is downstep? A reply to Clark (2010) (0)
Proceedings of the 7th Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology: Current Themes in Computational Phonology and Morphology, SIGMORPHON@ACL 2004, Barcelona, Spain, July 26, 2004 (2004) (0)
Catherine the Great (Katherina die Grosse) (2001) (0)
Steven Bird (1995). Computational phonology: a constraint-based approach. (Studies in Natural Language Processing.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xv+203. (1997) (0)
Battaner Moro, Elena, Las ideas lingüísticas de John R. Firth (Münster, 2014) (2015) (0)
D. Robert Ladd (2014). Simultaneous structure in phonology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xvi+182. (2015) (0)
Learnability in practice (2015) (0)
Programming for Linguists: Perl for Language Researchers (review) (2004) (0)
The complementizer signature (1989) (0)
Jonathan Kaye, Phonology: a cognitive view . Hillsdale, N.J., Hove & London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1989. Pp. xi + 172. (1991) (0)
The legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and information into the 21st century, vol. 2: Mathematics and computability of language (review) (2008) (0)
Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition Proceedings of the Workshop (0)
Preface to Tones and Features (2011) (0)

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