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 alum of MIT, having completed his PhD there in 1975.^[1] The following is a list of linguists, those who study linguistics. ... The University of Pennsylvania (Penn is the moniker used by the university itself [2]) is a private, nonsectarian research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT, MapúaTech or simply Mapúa) is a private, non-sectarian, Filipino tertiary institute located in Intramuros, Manila. ... PhD usually refers to the academic title Doctor of Philosophy PhD can also refer to the manga Phantasy Degree This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ...

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. Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone = sound/voice) is the study of sounds (voice). ... Prosody may mean several things: Prosody consists of distinctive variations of stress, tone, and timing in spoken language. ... Speech communication is the aural form of transferring ideas, thoughts, instructions and/or directives utilizing the speakers vocal chords and mouth to stimulate the air, thus causing waves of sound to strike the audible receptors of the hearer, resulting in a transformation back into mental images and/or symbols... Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and logical modeling of natural language from a computational perspective. ... 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. The concept of the eggcorn was first proposed in one of his posts there. Language Log is a popular collaborative language blog maintained by University of Pennsylvania phonetician Mark Liberman. ... Eggcorn is a linguistics term that refers to a language error in which a person fallaciously replaces a word or phrase with a word or words that sound identical, at least in the dialect the person uses. ...

External links and references

1. ^ "UPenn Linguistics: faculty".

• 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.