Janet Dean Fodor

Who is Janet Dean Fodor?

Janet Dean Fodor is Distinguished Professor of linguistics at the City University of New York. Her primary field is psycholinguistics, and her research interests include human sentence processing, learnability theory and L1 acquisition.

Fodor received her B.A. in 1964 and her M.A. in 1966, both from Oxford University, while she received her Ph.D. in 1970 from MIT. She was President of the Linguistic Society of America in 1997.

She is married to Jerry Alan Fodor.