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Keyser, Samuel Jay was born on July 7, 1935. Son of Abraham L. and Sabina (Shaplen) Keyser.
(This work introduces a new approach to syllable represent...)
This work introduces a new approach to syllable representation. It proposes an additional level of phonological representation, the CV-tier; which defines functional positions within the syllable. The first three chapters provide an explanation of and support far this new approach from a typologically varied selection of languages, including English, Turkish, Finnish, French, Spanish, and Danish. The last two chapters are devoted to an in-depth application of the theory of Klamath, showing that a radical simplification of the phonological rules of that language is made possible in terms of this new framework. The book constitutes the first full-scale phonological justification for the CV-tier. George N. Clements is Associate Professor in the Linguistics Department at Cornell University and co-author, along with Morris Halle, of the recent MIT Press/ Bradford Books publication, "Problem Book in Phonology. "Samuel Jay Keyser is Head of the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT and editor of the Linguistic Inquiry Monograph Series.
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( Oscar Wilde was once asked why he wrote stories for chi...)
Oscar Wilde was once asked why he wrote stories for children (for example, The Happy Giant). His answer: "I no more write for children than I write for adults. Rather, I write for those who find in simplicity a subtle strangeness." So, too, writes Samuel Jay Keyser in The Pond God and Other Stories. The stories were inspired by a Navajo shaman who once said that he had seen a god walking across the horizon. Keyser is both humorous and profound as he explores the foibles and insights of the very human "gods" who inhabit his primordial world. The stories include “How Clouds Came to Be," "How a Thief Stole the Horizon," and "How the Sun Tricked a God." Each reader of these 43 parables will bring a different perspective to the stories. Robert Shetterly, acclaimed for his illustration of William Blake's Proverbs of Heaven and Hell, captures and compounds the "subtle strangeness" of Keyser's tales in the simple, evocative line drawings for The Pond God.
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Keyser, Samuel Jay was born on July 7, 1935. Son of Abraham L. and Sabina (Shaplen) Keyser.
Bachelor, George Washington University, 1956. Bachelor with honors, Oxford University, England, 1958. Master of Arts, Oxford University, England, 1962.
Master of Arts, Yale University, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1962.
Member staff Research Laboratory Electronics Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1961-1962. Member faculty Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1965-1971, University College London, 1971-1972. Head department linguistics University Massachusetts, Amherst, 1972-1977.
Head department linguistics and philosophy Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1977—1984, associate provost for institute life, 1985—1994, special assistant to the provost, 1994-1998, special assistant to Chancellor, since 1998, emeritus, since 1998, interim alcohol coordinator, 1999-2000. With United States Air Force, 1962-1965.
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(This work introduces a new approach to syllable represent...)
Peter de Florez chair Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. Member Linguistic Society of America, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (honorary member), Phi Beta Kappa.
Children: Rachel Suzanne, Beth Rebecca, Benjamin Jay Kendall. Married Nancy Kelly, 2001.