Sharon Inkelas is a Professor and former Chair of the

Linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

Department at the

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Education and career

Inkelas completed her Bachelor of Arts in mathematics at

Pomona College Pomona College ( ) is a private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalism in the United States, Congregationalists ...

in 1984 and received her PhD in linguistics at

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in 1989 with a dissertation, "Prosodic Constituency in the Lexicon," supervised by

Paul Kiparsky René Paul Victor Kiparsky (born January 28, 1941) is a Finnish linguist and professor of linguistics at Stanford University. He is the son of the St. Petersburg (Russia)-born linguist and Baltist/ Slavicist Valentin Kiparsky. Kiparsky is es ...

. In 1990, she arrived at UC Berkeley as a Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science research fellow and became a faculty member at Berkeley in 1992. She was a Hellman Fellow in 1995. She was named the special faculty adviser to the chancellor on sexual violence/sexual harassment for a three-year term, beginning on July 24, 2017. Inkelas is noted for her work on

phonology Phonology (formerly also phonemics or phonematics: "phonemics ''n.'' 'obsolescent''1. Any procedure for identifying the phonemes of a language from a corpus of data. 2. (formerly also phonematics) A former synonym for phonology, often pre ...

interfaces and particularly the interaction between

morphology Morphology, from the Greek and meaning "study of shape", may refer to: Disciplines *Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts *Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies, ...

and phonology. Her research interests include cophonology theory,

reduplication In linguistics, reduplication is a Morphology (linguistics), morphological process in which the Root (linguistics), root or Stem (linguistics), stem of a word, part of that, or the whole word is repeated exactly or with a slight change. The cla ...

, affix ordering, child phonology, and the analysis of

Turkish Turkish may refer to: * Something related to Turkey ** Turkish language *** Turkish alphabet ** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation *** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey *** Turkish communities in the former Ottoman Empire * The w ...

Honors

Inkelas has long been actively involved in the

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, serving on their executive committee from 2016–2018. In 2020, Inkelas was inducted as a

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of the

Personal

Inkelas is also a

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ist: she played for the symphony orchestra of Stanford University and is a member of the symphony orchestra of the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States. It is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University ...

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Selected publications

* "Reduplication", in Keith Brown, ed., ''Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics'',

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: Oxford, pp. 417–419, 2006 * "Underspecification", in Keith Brown, ed., ''Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics'', Elsevier: Oxford, pp. 224–226, 2006 * "The architecture and the implementation of a finite state pronunciation lexicon for Turkish", with Kemal Oflazer. '' Computer Speech and Language'', pp. 80–106, 2006 * ''Reduplication: Doubling in Morphology'', with Cheryl Zoll.

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. 2005
Review
* "Velar Fronting Revisited", with Yvan Rose, in Barbara Beachley, Amanda Brown & Fran Conlin (eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development; Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press * "Turkish stress: a review", with C. Orhan Orgun, ''Phonology'' 20, pp. 139–161, 2003 * "J's rhymes: a longitudinal case study of language play", ''

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'' 30, pp. 557–581, 2003

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