Mary Beckman
Mary Esther Beckman | |
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| Born | September 1953 |
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| Education | Keith Allan Johnson, Mariapaola D'Imperio |
Mary Esther Beckman (born September 1953) is a Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the Ohio State University.
Career
Beckman received her PhD from
Her early research focused on prosody and the development of the Tones and Boundary Indexes (ToBI) system of intonation transcription.[1] More recently her work has focused on phonological disorders and child language acquisition.[2]
Perhaps her most significant contribution to linguistics is the fact that in 1987, together with John Kingston, she organized the first Laboratory Phonology conference at Columbus, Ohio.
Honors and awards
In 1988 she won a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation.
She edited the Journal of Phonetics from 1990 to 1994.
Beckman was inducted as a Fellow in the Linguistic Society of America in 2011.[4] In 2015, she received the Scientific Achievement Medal of the International Speech Communication Association.[5]
Personal life
Beckman is married to John S. Cikoski, a specialist for Classical Chinese.
Selected publications
- Beckman, Mary E. (1986). Stress and Non-Stress Accent. Netherlands Phonetic Archives Series. ISBN 978-3-11-013729-3.
- ISBN 978-0-262-16109-1.
- Kingston, John; Beckman, Mary (1990). Papers in Laboratory Phonology I: Between the Grammar and Physics of Speech. ISBN 978-0-521-36238-2.
- Beckman, Mary, Ken de Jong,
References
- ^ Beckman, Mary E. (2010). "The Original ToBi System and the Evolution of the ToBi Framework". Oxford Scholarship Online.
- ^ "Mary E Beckman". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
- ^ "About the Association for Laboratory Phonology | labphon". labphon.org. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
- ^ LSA Fellows By Name, Linguistic Society of America
- ^ "ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Honors and Awards". Retrieved Mar 22, 2018.
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