LINGUIST List 19.406
Mon Feb 04 2008
All: Obituary: Celia Jakubowicz
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Obituary: Celia Jakubowicz
Message 1: Obituary: Celia Jakubowicz
Date: 02-Feb-2008
From: Maria Luisa Zubizarreta <zubizarrusc.edu>
Subject: Obituary: Celia Jakubowicz
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This is to announce to the larger linguistic community the loss of our esteemed colleague and friend Celia Jakubowicz on January 10, 2008.
Celia studied Psychology at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where she received her Licencia de Psicologia in 1963. From 1964-1966, with a fellowship of the Conicet (Consejo Nacional de la Investigación Cientifica y Tecnica), she continued her studies in Paris, where she engaged in experimental research on the integration of temporal visual stimuli under the supervision of Paul Fraisse, then director of the Laboratoire de Pyschologie Expérimentale at the Sorbonne (Université Réné Descartes). In 1967, she joined the CNRS (Centre National de Research Scientifique) as Attaché de Recherche. In 1971, she completed her dissertation in Psychology on language development (On the comprehension of negative sentences). From 1971-1976, she returned to Argentina, as co-director of the Instituto de Investigaciones en Epistemología y Psicología Genética in Buenos Aires ; she also joined the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) as Professor of Developmental Psychology.
In 1976, shortly after the tragic military coup in Argentina, Celia returned to France and rejoined her alma mater (Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, Université René Descartes), where she developed a research project on language comprehension and production. After an inspirational meeting with Noam Chomsky at the Royaumont Conference in 1980, Celia decided to embark on a new research project on innate aspects of language development. She spent three and a half years at MIT (1981-1985). In 1985, she returned to her lab in Paris to continue her new language acquisition projects with children, as well as with adult aphasics; she also began teaching at the Université Paris 8 (St-Denis). In 1995, with her characteristic energy and enthusiam, Celia began yet a new research project, namely on the development of language in children with SLI (Selective Language Impairment). She directed numerous dissertations at Université Paris 5 and Paris 8 on this subject, and created interdisciplinary research groups across several institutions in France and abroad to enhance research on SLI. Her research was an attempt to formulate a syntactic calculus that could account for the properties of language development in SLI children. She published extensively and edited two important works on this topic. Celia was named Directeur de Recherche Emérite shortly before her death. Her intellectual drive and generosity will be deeply missed.
Juan Segui (Laboratoire de Pyschologie Expérimentale) and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta (University of Southern California)
Linguistic Field(s): Not Applicable
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