Mary LeCron Foster
American linguist
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Mary LeCron Foster's Degrees
- PhD Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors English University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mary LeCron Foster was an American anthropological linguist, who spent most of her working life at the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Foster carried out graduate work in anthropology under the direction of Ruth Benedict. The influence of Franz Boas, whom she also knew at Columbia, may be seen in Foster's interests in symbolism and language origins. In addition to writing grammars of Sierra Popoluca and Purépecha, she published several articles purporting to reconstruct spoken Primordial Language . PL, she maintained, was constructed out of speech sounds she dubbed ‘phememes’ that were at the same time roots, whose meaning was motivated by the shaping and movement of the vocal tract.
Mary LeCron Foster's Published Works
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- The Archaeology of Perception: Traces of Depiction and Language [and Comments and Reply] (1989) (284)
- Primate Calls, Human Language, and Nonverbal Communication [and Comments and Reply] (1993) (184)
- The Tarascan language (1973) (49)
- The Social Dynamics Of Peace And Conflict: Culture In International Security (1988) (19)
- Peace and War (1986) (17)
- Symbol as sense : new approaches to the analysis of meaning (1982) (16)
- Symbol as Sense: New Approaches to the Analysis of Meaning. (1983) (14)
- Stature as a Measure of Effects of Environmental Change (1976) (7)
- 11. Language as analogic strategy: Suggestions for evolutionary research (1994) (4)
- Componential Analysis of Grammar: The Tarascan Verb (1968) (3)
- Anthropology and Conflict (1986) (3)
- Deep Structure in Symbolic Anthropology (1974) (3)
- The Emotional Life of the Ill and Injured (1951) (2)
- The Anthropology of War and Peace: Perspectives on the Nuclear Age. PAUL R. TURNER, DAVID PITT (1990) (1)
- Structural Hierarchy and Social Good in Tzintzuntzan (1985) (1)
- Huichol Syntax. Joseph E. Grimes (1966) (0)
- 11. Language as analogic strategy (1994) (0)
- Chapter 3 Cultural Triggering of Psychological Reversals (1988) (0)
- The Problem of origins (1996) (0)
- LINGUISTICS: Linguistics. Norman A. McQuown (1969) (0)
- The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. [100], Ed. 1 Thursday, June 3, 1976 (1976) (0)
- Morris Swadesh, The origin and diversification of language . Edited by Joel F. Sherzer; Introduction by Dell Hymes. Chicago: Aldine-Atherton, 1971. Pp. xvii + 350. (1972) (0)
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