Georgette Ioup
Georgette Ioup | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 17, 1940 Altoona, Pennsylvania |
| Died | May 28, 2024 (aged 84) |
| Burial place | New Orleans |
| Occupation(s) | linguistics professor and researcher |
| Employer | University of New Orleans |
| Known for | Second-language acquisition research |
Georgette Ioup (May 17, 1940 – May 28, 2024) was an American linguistics professor and researcher. She examined the ways people learn new languages (called second-language acquisition), and one of her research papers was considered "one of the most impactful studies published in SSLA [Studies in Second Language Acquisition]," according to Cambridge University Press.[1]
Early life
[edit]Georgette Ioup was born May 17, 1940, in Altoona, Pennsylvania, to Elias George and Angeline (Kattouf) Ioup.[2] In 1958, she graduated from Altoona High School.[2] She earned a B.A. degree in classical languages from Wilson College in 1963, an M.A. in linguistics from New York University in 1973, and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the CUNY Graduate Center in 1975.[2]
Academic career
[edit]From 1985 to 2007, Ioup worked as a professor in the Department of English at the University of New Orleans.[2] Before joining the University of New Orleans, Ioup served as a professor at the American University in Cairo and the University of Washington in Seattle.[2]
During her career, Ioup's linguistics research was published in several academic journals, including Linguistics and Philosophy[3] and Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies.[4]
In 1987, she and linguistics researcher Steven H. Weinberger were co-editors of the book Interlanguage Phonology: The Acquisition of a Second Language Sound System (Newbury House Publishers). A 1990 review of this book in Second Language Research called it a "well integrated, comprehensive mixture of established and recent articles, covering all major issues of phonology."[5]
Ioup was the primary author of "Reexamining the Critical Period Hypothesis: A Case Study of Successful Adult SLA in a Naturalistic Environment," published in March 1994 in the journal Studies in Second Language Acquisition, which examined "the ability of adults to achieve nativelike competence in [a] second language" without the benefit of formal schooling. On May 22, 2018, Cambridge University Press released a video interview of Ioup discussing this article, as part of the press's series on "authors of key papers" talking about "their influential articles."[1] In the interview, Ioup explained that while teaching in Egypt, she had met a British student, Julie, who reported learning Egyptian Arabic "as an adult but in the manner of a child," meaning the student never had formal training in Egyptian Arabic and could only speak the language, not read or write it.[1] Ioup recounted that this student's ability to learn Egyptian Arabic led Ioup to reconsider the so-called critical period hypothesis, which claims that languages need to be learned at a young age (usually before puberty) in order to achieve nativelike fluency.[1]
Personal life
[edit]Ioup had two brothers: George E. Ioup (March 26, 1939 – January 20, 2016), a former professor of physics at the University of New Orleans, and William E. Ioup, a one-time president of Superior Tree Company in Arkansas.[2][6]
She had a son, Elias Z. K. Ioup, and a daughter, Carole Mashamesh.[2]
Georgette Ioup told The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate that she left Seattle and relocated to New Orleans "because she wanted to raise her son near her kind-hearted brother [George]."[7]
Death
[edit]Ioup died May 28, 2024, at age 84.[2] She is buried at St. Louis Cemetery in New Orleans.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Cambridge University Press (2018-05-22). An interview with Georgette Ioup. Retrieved 2024-11-30 – via YouTube.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Obituaries: Dr. Georgette Ioup". Altoona Mirror. June 8, 2024. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
- ^ Ioup, Georgette (1977). "Specificity and the Interpretation of Quantifiers". Linguistics and Philosophy. 1 (2): 233–245. doi:10.1007/bf00351105.
- ^ Ioup, Georgette (1984). "Is There a Structural Foreign Accent? A Comparison of Syntactic and Phonological Errors in Second Language Acquisition". Language Learning. 34 (2): 1–15. doi:10.1111/j.1467-1770.1984.tb01001.x. ISSN 1467-9922.
- ^ Lowie, Wander M. (1990-12-01). "Book reviews: loup, G. and Weinberger, S.H. (eds) 1987: Interlanguage phonology: The acquisition of a second language sound system. Cambridge, Mass.: Newbury House Publishers, 423 pp". Interlanguage studies bulletin (Utrecht). 6 (2): 159–167. doi:10.1177/026765839000600206. ISSN 0165-9960.
- ^ "Extended Obituaries - I". MIT Class of 1962. October 29, 2016. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
- ^ Reckdahl, Katy (January 25, 2016). "George Ioup, longtime physics professor at University of New Orleans, dies at 76". NOLA.com. Retrieved 2024-11-30.