John Goldsmith
Pronouns: He/Him/His Areas of Study: Department of Linguistics Website: http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~jagoldsm/ Curriculum Vitae
Office:
Rosenwald 201B
Office hours:
By Appointment
Contact:
Email
Interests:
Phonology, Computational Morphology, Historical Epistemology
Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science
Biography
Dr. John Goldsmith’s work has focused on phonological theory, on Bantu tone systems, and on computational morphology and phonology (especially algorithms for unsupervised learning). This work has included the development of autosegmental phonology, harmonic phonology, dynamic computational models of stress and sonority, the open source projects Linguistica, and geometric morphology.
In 2019, Goldsmith published (along with Bernard Laks) Battle in the Mind Fields, the first in a sequence of books exploring the epistemology and sociology of the development of ideas in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.
Education
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976