# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-prince
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:31:02.303Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-prince"
name: "Alan Prince"
slug: "alan-prince"
description: "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."
tagline: "American linguist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-06-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.18
  momentum:             15
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Alan Prince"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ألان برنس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Prince"
    title: "Alan Prince"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Prince"
    title: "Alan Prince"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "アラン・プリンス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%A8%EB%9F%B0_%ED%94%84%EB%A6%B0%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "앨런 프린스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Prince"
    title: "Alan Prince"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump