TAKEPLACE: A FELLOW AAAS INDUCTION

Saturday, February 19, 2011

A FELLOW AAAS INDUCTION

David Pesetsky, Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Five other distinguished members of the MIT community were also elected to the AAAS this year. (See MIT News).

Pesetsky, who is also Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, was chosen for “his innovative and critical research on syntactic theory, connecting it to issues in phonology, morphology, reading, language acquisition and neuroscience, and for his contributions to linguistic education at many levels.” MIT

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