Mark Liberman is a linguist. Linguistics is the scientific study of Language, encompassing a number of sub-fields 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. The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn) is a private University located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is also currently the director of the Linguistic Data Consortium. The Linguistic Data Consortium is an open consortium of universities companies and government research laboratories He is an alumnus of MIT, having completed his PhD there in 1975. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. [1]
Liberman's main research interests lie in phonetics, prosody, and other aspects of speech communication. Phonetics (from the Greek φωνή ( phonê) "sound" or "voice" is the study of the physical sounds of human speech Speech refers to the processes associated with the production and perception of Sounds used in Spoken language. His research is frequently conducted through computational analyses of linguistic corpora. Computational linguistics is an Interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of Natural language from a computational Corpus linguistics is the Study of language as expressed in Samples ( corpora) or "real world" text
Liberman is also the founder of (and frequent contributor to) Language Log, a blog with a broad cast of dozens of professional linguists. Language Log is a collaborative language Blog maintained by University of Pennsylvania phonetician Mark Liberman. The concept of the eggcorn was first proposed in one of his posts there. In Linguistics, an eggcorn is an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound similar or identical in the speaker's dialect
Liberman is the son of the psychologists Alvin Liberman and Isabelle Liberman, both of whom are now deceased. Alvin Meyer Liberman (May 10 1917 - Jan 13 2000 was an American Psychologist whose ideas set the agenda for fifty years of research in the psychology of Speech perception Isabelle Yoffe Liberman (1921 - 1990 was an American Psychologist, born in Latvia, who was an expert on reading disabilities including Dyslexia
External links and references
- Mark Liberman's home page
- Mark Liberman and Geoffrey K. Pullum, Far from the madding gerund: and other dispatches from the Language Log. Professor Geoffrey K Pullum (born March 8, 1945 in Irvine, Scotland) is a linguist specialising in the study of English 2006, William, James, and Co. ISBN 1-59028-055-5.
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