John_McCarthy_(linguist)

John McCarthy (linguist) - Definition

Related Words: Dialectician, Etymologist, Grammarian, Lexicographer, Multilingual, Paleographer, Philologian, Philologist, Phonetician, Phonologist, Polyglot

John McCarthy is a linguist and phonologist from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He was responsible, along with Alan Prince, of extending Optimality Theory to morphology.

External links

John McCarthy's homepage (http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~jjmccart/)

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