Donca Steriade (born 1951 in Bucharest) is a Romanian-American professor of Linguistics at MIT, specializing in phonological theory.
from Université Laval in 1976, She studied for her PhD at the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy under Morris Halle.
[6] After earning her PhD, she took up a position at UCLA[7] before returning to MIT to become Professor of Linguistics.
[8] Steriade was named Professor Honoris Causa by the Faculty of Letters at the University of Bucharest in 2017.
[14] She has worked on a range of Indo-European languages and has published and co-published broadly, including journal articles and book chapters.