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Harry Howard
Dr. Howard spent his senior year of college in
Sevile, Spain, studying languages and anthropology, and stayed on
for two more years teaching English. He returned to UNC-Chapel Hill
to pursue a Master's in linguistics and then transfered to
Cornell to complete a doctorate in Spanish syntax under the guidance
of Margarita Suñer in 19??. He then taught for three years
in the Spanish department at Rutgers before moving to New Orleans
to teach in the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University,
where he earned tenure.
His dissertation research was on the syntax and semantics of focus movement in
English and Spanish, in the Barriers and Relativized-Minimality frameworks. Since
then, he has become more interested in the neurological principles that underlay
grammatical phenomena. He attended the Oxford Summer School in Connectionist
Modeling in 1996, and has given several papers on neural network approaches to
semantics (quantification and coordination) and morphology (Spanish diminutives).
He has a book entitled Connectionist Semantics: Neural Networks for Coordination,
Quantification and Collective Predicates under revision for publication in John
Benjamin's Human Cognitive Processing series, as well as a handbook on
connectionist linguistics under contract for Elsevier Scientific.
At Tulane, he is instrumental in bringing informational technology into the classroom
for the teaching of linguistics and foreign languages. Much of his class material
is on the World Wide Web and is routinely consulted from around the world by
those interested in Spanish linguistics.
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last update
August 28, 2008
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