Mark Yoffe Liberman is an American linguist who serves as the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, with a joint appointment in the Department of Computer and Information Science. The son of psychologists Alvin and Isabelle Liberman, he earned his masters degree in 1972 and his PhD in 1975 from MIT, studying under Morris Halle, and his research on phonetics and prosody established the linguistic subfield of metrical phonology. He is founding director of the Linguistic Data Consortium, co-editor of the Annual Review of Linguistics, and founder of the Language Log blog, where the concept of the eggcorn was first proposed; in 2012 he and Steven Bird launched a mobile-telephone project for collecting data on undocumented endangered languages that produced the app Aikuma.
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Mark Yoffe Liberman is an American linguist.
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phonetics, prosody, and other aspects of speech communication
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the founder of (and frequent contributor to) Language Log, a blog with a broad cast of dozens of professional linguists
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