Mark Liberman

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Mark Liberman
Born
Mark Yoffe Liberman
Nationality
Bell Laboratories

Mark Yoffe Liberman /ˈlɪbərmən/[1] is an American linguist. He has a dual appointment at the University of Pennsylvania, as Trustee Professor of Phonetics in the Department of Linguistics, and as a professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences. He is the founder and director of the Linguistic Data Consortium. Liberman is the Faculty Director of Ware College House at the University of Pennsylvania.

Early life

Liberman is the son of psychologists Alvin Liberman and Isabelle Liberman.

Mark Liberman attended

PhD (1975).[3][4]

Career

From 1975 to 1990, he was a Member of Technical Staff at

Bell Laboratories
.

Research

Liberman's main research interests lie in

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

In 2012, Liberman and Steven Bird began a US$101,501 project "to use

endangered languages than would ever be possible through usual fieldwork."[6] The project resulted in the mobile app Aikuma.[7]

Books

References

  1. ^ Mark Liberman (2014-09-17). "UM / UH map in the media". Language Log. Retrieved 2014-10-19.
  2. ^ normblog: The normblog profile 196: Mark Liberman
  3. ^ "UPenn Linguistics: faculty".
  4. OCLC 60569027
    .
  5. doi:10.1146/annurev-li-1-122414-100001
    .
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ 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

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