Mark Liberman
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Mark Liberman is a 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 also currently the director of the Linguistic Data Consortium. He is an alumnus of MIT, having completed his PhD there in 1975.[1]
Liberman's main research interests lie in phonetics, prosody, and other aspects of speech communication. His research is frequently conducted through computational analyses of linguistic corpora.
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.
Liberman is the son of the distinguished psychologists Alvin Liberman and Isabelle Liberman, both of whom are now deceased.
[edit] 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. 2006, William, James, and Co. ISBN 1-59028-055-5.
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