Ray Jackendoff    

Seth Merrin Professor of Philosophy

Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University

 

email: ray(dot)jackendoff(at)tufts(dot)edu

Phone: 617-627-4348

Fax: 617-484-0164

 

Mailing address: Department of Philosophy

                          Tufts University

                          Medford MA 02155 USA

 

Vita (click here)

List of publications (click here)

Downloads of recent and forthcoming papers (click here)

 

Research interests: 

    Natural language semantics/conceptual structure

    Syntax and the syntax- semantics interface

 

    The lexicon

    Architecture of the language faculty

        and other cognitive capacities

    Music cognition

    Social cognition

    Consciousness



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Most recent books

      

Language, Consciousness, Culture: Essays

on Mental Structure, MIT Press, 2007                 

 

Foundations of Language

          Oxford University Press, 2002 

 

Simpler Syntax (with Peter W. Culicover)

          Oxford University Press, 2005

 

 

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Recording

 

Romanian Music for clarinet and piano,

with Valentina Sandu-Dediu, piano.

Music of Martian Negrea, Stefan Niculescu,

Dan Dediu, and Constantin Silvestri.

Albany Records, 2003.



Downloadable excerpts

   Negrea: Lullaby

   Negrea: Dance

 

     To order CD click here


     

 Comic relief (with thanks to Bill Griffith, www.zippythepinhead.com)

on cognitive science

on consciousness

            more on consciousness

            on language and linguistics    

            more on language and linguistics