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Géraldine Legendre
French-American cognitive scientist and linguist
Géraldine Legendre (born 1953)[1] is a French-American cognitive scientist and linguist known for her work on French grammar,[2] on mathematical models for the development of syntax in natural languages including harmonic grammar[3] and Optimality Theory,[4] and on universal grammar and innate syntactic ability of humans in natural language.[5] She is a professor of cognitive science at Johns Hopkins University and the chair of the Johns Hopkins Cognitive Science Department.