Professor, Ph.D. Program in Linguistics
Graduate Center, City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
telephone: 212-817-8502 JFodor@gc.cuny.edu
Research interests
Cross-linguistic studies of sentence processing and prosody; implicit prosody in silent reading; learnability theory; simulation studies of syntactic parameter setting.
Recent Ph.D. dissertations supervised
- Hirose, Yuki (1999) Resolving Reanalysis Ambiguity in Japanese Relative Clauses.
- Blasco-Aznar, Maria Vicenta. (2002) On the Acquisition of Object Pronominal Clitics in Spanish.
- Lovric, Nenad (2003) Implicit Prosody in Silent Reading: Relative Clause Attachment in Croatian.
Ph.D. dissertations in progress
- Abdelghany, Hala. Prosodic Phrasing in Sentence Processing: RC-Attachment Ambiguity in Arabic.
- Pugach, Yana. Prosody and Processing of Syntactic Ambiguities by Native Speakers and Second Language Learners.
- Shaked, Amit. Sentence Processing of Complex Nominals in Hebrew.
- Susskind, Christine. Defining Default Prosody in French Relative Clauses.
- Viger, Tanya. Linguistic Uses of Fundamental Frequency in Mandarin and English: Implications for Second-language Speakers.
Some recent publications
- Fodor, J. D. and Inoue, A. 2000. Garden path repair: Diagnosis and triage. Language and Speech 43.3.
- Fodor, J. D. and Sakas, W. G. (2005) The Subset Principle in syntax: Costs of compliance. Journal of Linguistics 41.3, 513-569.
Teaching
- Spring 2005 Sentence Processing
- Spring 2007 Sentence Processing
CV
- A CV covering the last 5 years is available to download in pdf format.
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