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Renowned cognitive scientist and linguistÌýRay JackendoffÌýspoke in the Department of Linguistics Linguistic Circle colloquium series as a departmental capstone speaker, on Monday, September 18, 2017.ÌýDetails areÌýhere.ÌýDr. Jackendoff isÌýSeth Merrin Professor of Philosophy and co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, Boston. He is alsoÌýa recent recipient of the Rumelhart Prize for distinguished contributions to cognitive science (clickÌýÌýfor his Rumelhart Prize lecture at the 2014 meeting of the Cognitive Science Society).Ìý

It is difficult to overstateÌýJackendoff's significance to the fields of linguistics and cognitive science. Among many other things, he is the developer of a unified theory of phrase structure (called X'-syntax), one of the first linguists to link linguisticÌýsemantics to conceptual structure, a scholar of music cognition and a specialist in language evolution (see his famousÌý, co-authored with Steven Pinker).

Most recently he has begun to develop aÌýnew framework for morphology, the topic of his LingCircle talk,Ìý. His visit is jointly sponsored by the Institute of Cognitive Science. He gave the ICS Ìýcolloquium on the Friday prior.Ìý