Colin Phillips
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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.
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.[1] He then attended graduate school at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he planned to study semantics.[2]
Career
Philipps researches language acquisition and language processing.[3] In 1997, he was hired at the University of Delaware as an assistant professor.[2] In 2000, he accepted a position as an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.[4] He was promoted to associate professor in 2002 and full professor in 2008.[5] He became the founding director of the Maryland Language Science Center in 2013.[3]
He has been co-editor of the Annual Review of Linguistics with Mark Y. Liberman since 2021.[5]
