Name Sharon Inkelas | ||
Books Reduplication, The Interplay of Morphology and Phonology, Prosodic Constituency in the Lexicon |
Sharon inkelas uc merced mts talk series fall 2015
Sharon Inkelas is a Professor and former Chair of the Linguistics Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in phonology interfaces and particularly in the interaction between morphology and phonology.
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- Sharon inkelas uc merced mts talk series fall 2015
- Campus Conversations special faculty adviser on SVSH Sharon Inkelas
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Inkelas completed her Bachelor of Arts in mathematics at Pomona College in 1984 and then received her doctorate in linguistics at Stanford University in 1989 with a dissertation, "Prosodic Constituency in the Lexicon," advised by Paul Kiparsky. In 1990, she arrived at UC Berkeley as Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science research fellow, and became a professor at Berkeley in 1992. Her recent research pursuits include cophonology theory, affix ordering, child phonology, and analysis of Turkish.

She has supervised 7 Ph.D. dissertations from 1996 to 2006.

Prof. Inkelas is also a violinist: she played for the symphony orchestra of Stanford University and as of 2009 is a member of the symphony orchestra of the University of California, Davis [1]. She has two sons.
