Mark Liberman

 

Director
Linguistic Data Consortium

 


 

 

Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics

 

Faculty Director
Ware College House		 Professor
Department of Computer
and Information Science
   
Office hours: (by appointment)
Email: myl@cis.upenn.edu

Recent courses:   LING 001: Introduction to Linguistics
    LING525/CIS558
Computational Analysis and Modeling of Biological Signals and Systems
    LING521: Corpus Phonetics
    LING 052: Big Data in Linguistics (Freshman Seminar)
    LING 005: The Landscape of Research and Innovation at Penn
    COGS 501 / COGS 502
Mathematical Foundations of Language and Communication Sciences
    Linguistics 620:Topics in Clinical Linguistics

Recent research areas:
  • corpus-based phonetics
  • legal, medical and political applications of linguistic analysis
  • the phonology and phonetics of lexical tone, and its relationship to intonation
  • formal models for linguistic annotation

A few papers:

Nevler, N., Ash, S., Jester, C., Irwin, D., Liberman, M., and Grossman, M., "Automatic measurement of prosody in behavioral variant FTD", Neurology 2018.
Wieling, M., J. Grieve, G. Bouma, J. Fruehwald, J. Coleman and M. Liberman, "Variation and Change in the Use of Hesitation Markers in Germanic Languages", Language Dynamics and Change, 2016.
Parish-Morris, J., M. Liberman, N. Ryant, C. Cieri, L. Bateman, E. Ferguson, and R. Schultz, " Exploring Autism Spectrum Disorders Using HLT", CL-Psych 2016.
Ryant, N., M. Slaney, M. Liberman, E. Shriberg, and J. Yuan, "Highly Accurate Mandarin Tone Classification in the Absence of Pitch Information", Speech Prosody 2014.
Yuan, J., and M. Liberman, "F0 Declination in English and Mandarin Broadcast News Speech", Speech Communication 2014.
Yuan, J. and M. Liberman, " Investigating /l/ Variation in English through Forced Alignment ", InterSpeech 2009.
Bird, S. and M. Liberman, "A Formal Framework for Linguistic Annotation". Speech Communication 2001.
Akinlabi, A. and M. Liberman, "Tonal Complexes and Tonal Alignment". NELS 31.
Akinlabi, A. and M. Liberman, "The Tonal Phonology of Yoruba Clitics". In B. Gerlach and J. Grijzenhout, eds., Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax. John Benjamins (2000).

Full CV here.

Erdös number: 3

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