Chris Barker is the American chair

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, famous for his discovery of the universal iota combinator and his

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-based approach to

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. Barker received a bachelor’s degree in English from

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in 1983, and both a bachelor’s degree in computer and information sciences in 1986, and a doctorate in linguistics in 1991 from the

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Selected works

* Barker & Chan 2014: Continuations and Natural Language. * Barker 2001
Iota and Jot - the simplest languages?

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