Samuel Jay Keyser

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Samuel Jay Keyser (born 1935) is an American theoretical phonologist, who is an authority on the history and structure of the English language, and on linguistic approaches to literary criticism.

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Dr. Keyser received a BA degree in English from George Washington University in 1956; a BA in 1958 and an MA in 1962, both in English, from Merton College, Oxford University, England; another MA, in linguistics, from Yale University in 1960; and a PhD in linguistics from Yale in 1962.

He is well-known to the entire MIT community and to jazz fans throughout the Boston area as an accomplished trombonist.