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John A. Goldsmith. Battle in the Mind Fields is the title of a book that I published in 2019 with Bernard Laks. It explores the nature of intellectual rupture and continuity, with a careful look at linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and logic during the period from 1870 to 1940. Here is a link to the genealogical chart which you see to the ...
Generative phonology: its origins, its principles, and its successors John Goldsmith and Bernard Laks Introduction The story of the rise of generative phonology, both in the United States and abroad, is one of continuity and of rupture.1 That there has been rupture has been emphasized by commentators and historians alike, as also by the originators of generative phonology; the continuity has ...
John Goldsmith may refer to: John Goldsmith (cricketer) (1766–1845), English first-class cricketer. John Goldsmith (footballer) (born 1931), Australian rules footballer. John Goldsmith (linguist), American linguist. John G. Goldsmith (1909–1972), British agent for the Special Operations Executive during World War II. Jonathan Goldsmith ...
Major John Gilbert Goldsmith DSO MC (15 August 1909 – 1 January 1972) was a British agent in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. The son of a horse dealer, he went on to become a racehorse trainer himself, John Goldsmith grew up as part of the expat community in Paris. He was born in Paris on 15 August 1909 and ...
John Goldsmith and Bernard Laks Introduction The story of the rise of generative phonology, both in the United States and abroad, is one of continuity and of rupture.1 That there 1 A lightly edited version of this paper will appear in the Cambridge History of Linguistics, edited by Linda Waugh, John Joseph and Monique Monville-Burston.
John Goldsmith was born on 9 April 1947 in London, England, UK. He is a writer and director, known for The Island on Bird Street (1997), The Protectors (1972) and The New Avengers (1976). He has been married to Anthea Wynne Ionides since 11 November 1978.
Dr. John Goldsmith’s work has focused on phonological theory, on Bantu tone systems, and on computational morphology and phonology (especially algorithms for unsupervised learning). This work has included the development of autosegmental phonology, harmonic phonology, dynamic computational models of stress and sonority, the open source projects Linguistica, and geometric morphology. In 2019 ...
