Colin Phillips
{{Short description|British linguist}}
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Colin Phillips is a British-American psycholinguist who is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford. He maintains a part-time professorship at the University of Maryland, where he was previously director of the Maryland Language Science Center. He is an elected fellow of the Linguistic Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a co-editor of the Annual Review of Linguistics.
Early life and education
Colin Phillips grew up in a rural town in eastern England. He attended University of Oxford, where he studied Medieval German literature. He then came to the United States on an exchange scholarship to study at University of Rochester for a year, where he became more interested in linguistics.{{Cite web |title=Linguist Phillips Named AAAS Fellow {{!}} College of Arts and Humanities |url=https://arhu.umd.edu/news/linguist-phillips-named-aaas-fellow |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=arhu.umd.edu |language=en}} He then attended graduate school at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he planned to study semantics.{{cite web|url=https://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-3448/| title=LINGUIST List 31.3448, Mon Nov 09 2020, Featured Linguist: Colin Phillips| website=Linguist List| access-date=15 March 2021|date=9 November 2020}}
Career
Philipps researches language acquisition and language processing. In 1997, he was hired at the University of Delaware as an assistant professor. In 2000, he accepted a position as an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was promoted to associate professor in 2002 and full professor in 2008. He became the founding director of the Maryland Language Science Center in 2013.
He has been co-editor of the Annual Review of Linguistics with Mark Y. Liberman since 2021.
Awards and honors
The Linguistic Society of America elected him as a fellow in 2018.{{cite web|url=http://www.colinphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cv.html| title=Colin Phillips| website=Colin Phillips| access-date=15 March 2021| date=August 2020}}
In 2020, he was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.{{cite web|url=https://arhu.umd.edu/news/linguist-phillips-named-aaas-fellow| title=Linguist Phillips Named AAAS Fellow| date=17 December 2020| access-date=15 March 2021}}
Personal life
During his study-abroad year at University of Rochester, he met his future wife, Andrea Zukowski.{{cite web|url=https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/may-2017-member-spotlight-colin-phillips| title=May 2017 Member Spotlight: Colin Phillips| website=Linguistic Society of America| access-date=15 March 2021| date=May 2017}} They have one child. In 2016, he and Zukowski founded College Park parkrun, a series of free running events in their area.{{cite web|url=https://blog.parkrun.com/us/2017/11/01/parkrun-is-one-of-my-favorite-things-about-college-park/| title=parkrun is one of my favorite things about College Park| date=1 November 2017| access-date=15 March 2021| website=parkrun}}{{cite web|url=https://dbknews.com/2019/10/07/college-park-parkrun-5k-race-paint-branch-trail-community/| title="It's like a family": How College Park's weekly 5K has brought the community together| first=Sahana | last=Jayaraman| date=7 October 2019| access-date=15 March 2021| website=The Diamondback}}
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Category:Linguists from the United Kingdom
Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford
Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Category:University of Delaware faculty
Category:University of Rochester alumni
Category:University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Category:Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America
Category:Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Category:Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford