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Birth Name:

John McCarthy (linguist)

Male

Birth Date:

Wed, Apr 29, 1953

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Medford, Massachusetts, United States

Age:

71

Zodiac Sign:

Taurus

Astrology Data:

Sun

9°

Tau

2'

About John McCarthy (linguist)

John McCarthy (born 1953 in Medford, Massachusetts) has been the Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst since July 2017. In July 2018, he assumed office as the Provost. He previously was a linguist and professor in the Department Linguistics with a specialty in phonology and morphology. He completed his A.B. in linguistics and Near Eastern languages at Harvard College and obtained his Ph.D. from MIT in 1979. He was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and a visiting scientist at Bell Labs before moving to the University of Massachusetts Amherst. McCarthy was responsible, along with Alan Prince, for extending autosegmental phonology, and later Optimality Theory, to morphology.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for John McCarthy (linguist): Sun 9 Taurus, Moon 14 Scorpio, Mercury 15 Aries, Venus 15 Aries, Mars 28 Taurus, Jupiter 27 Taurus, Saturn 22 Libra, Uranus 15 Cancer, Neptune 22 Libra, Pluto 20 Leo, Mercury Square Uranus, Mercury Conjunct Venus, Mercury Semi Square Mars, Venus Semi Square Mars, Venus Semi Square Jupiter, Venus Square Uranus, Mars Conjunct Jupiter, Mars Semi Square Uranus, Jupiter Semi Square Uranus, Saturn Conjunct Neptune, Saturn Sextile Pluto, Neptune Sextile Pluto

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