John McCarthy

Male, Person

1953 –

51

Who is John McCarthy?

John McCarthy is a linguist and professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a speciality in phonology and morphology. He was educated at Harvard University and MIT and was responsible, along with Alan Prince, for extending autosegmental phonology, and later Optimality Theory, to morphology.

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Born
1953
Nationality
  • United States of America
Education
  • Harvard University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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