Mark Yoffe Liberman /ˈlɪbərmən/[1] is an American linguist. He is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, with a dual appointment as Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science. He is the founding director of the Linguistic Data Consortium and Faculty Director of Ware College House.
Mark Liberman | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mark Yoffe Liberman |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS, PhD) |
| Thesis | The intonational system of English (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Morris Halle |
| Influences | Alvin Liberman (father) Isabelle Liberman (mother) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania, Bell Laboratories |
Early life
editLiberman is the son of psychologists Alvin Liberman and Isabelle Liberman.
Mark Liberman attended Harvard College but did not graduate. After two years' service in the US Army in Vietnam,[2] he enrolled in graduate school in linguistics at MIT, from which he received a Master of Science (1972) and a PhD (1975).[3][4]
Career
editFrom 1975 to 1990, he was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories.
Research
editLiberman's main research interests lie in phonetics, prosody, and other aspects of speech communication. His early research established the linguistic subfield of metrical phonology. Much of his current research is conducted through computational analyses of linguistic corpora. In 2017, Liberman was the recipient of the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award.
Liberman is a founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Linguistics.[5] Liberman is also the founder of (and frequent contributor to) Language Log, a blog with a broad cast of dozens of professional linguists. The concept of the eggcorn was first proposed in one of his posts there.
Mobile phones and endangered languages
editIn 2012, Liberman and Steven Bird began a US$101,501 project "to use mobile telephones to collect larger amounts of data on undocumented endangered languages than would ever be possible through usual fieldwork."[6] The project resulted in the mobile app Aikuma.[7]
Books
edit- Liberman, Mark; Pullum, Geoffrey K. (2006). Far from the Madding Gerund: and Other Dispatches from the Language Log. William, James, and Co. ISBN 1-59028-055-5.
References
edit- ^ Mark Liberman (2014-09-17). "UM / UH map in the media". Language Log. Retrieved 2014-10-19.
- ^ normblog: The normblog profile 196: Mark Liberman
- ^ "UPenn Linguistics: faculty".
- ^ Liberman, Mark Yoffe (1975). The intonational system of English (PDF) (Ph.D thesis). MIT (reproduced by the Indiana University Linguistics Club). OCLC 60569027.
- ^ Liberman, Mark; Partee, Barbara (2015). "Introduction". Annual Review of Linguistics. 1: v–vi. doi:10.1146/annurev-li-1-122414-100001.
- ^ "NEH and NSF Award $4.5 Million to Preserve Languages Threatened With Extinction". National Endowment for the Humanities. 2012-08-09. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
- ^ Steven Bird; Florian R. Hanke; Oliver Adams; Haejoong Lee (2014). Aikuma: A Mobile App for Collaborative Language Documentation (PDF). Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages. Association for Computational Linguistics. pp. 1–5. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
External links
edit- Official website
- Mark Liberman at Ware College House, UPenn