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Irene Heim

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United StatesWritersBorn 1954 · age 71
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Irene Roswitha Heim is a German-American linguist and a leading specialist in semantics. She was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) before moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1989, where she is professor emerita of linguistics.

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Irene Roswitha Heim is a German-American linguist and a leading specialist in semantics. She was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) before moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1989, where she is professor emerita of linguistics. She served as head of the Linguistics Section of the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.

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Born 1954 · age 71
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