Sharon Inkelas is a Professor and former Chair of the

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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 liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it beca ...

in 1984 and received her PhD in linguistics at Stanford University in 1989 with a dissertation, "Prosodic Constituency in the Lexicon," supervised by

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. 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

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interfaces and particularly the interaction between

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and phonology. Her research interests include cophonology theory, reduplication, affix ordering, child phonology, and the analysis of

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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

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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. ''

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'', pp. 80–106, 2006 * ''Reduplication: Doubling in Morphology'', with

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. 2005
Review
* "Velar Fronting Revisited", with

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, in Barbara Beachley, Amanda Brown &

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(eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development; Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press * "Turkish stress: a review", with

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, ''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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