Géraldine Legendre

Géraldine Legendre
Born1953 (age 72–73)
Education
Occupations
  • Cognitive scientist
  • linguist

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