# Alan Prince

> Alan Sanford Prince is a Board of Governors Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Prince, along with Paul Smolensky, developed Optimality Theory, which was originally applied to phonology, but has been extended to other areas of linguistics such as syntax and semantics.

*American linguist*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1946-06-20
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q982659)

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