Philip Lieberman
Biographic Data
| ID | 80119 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Lieberman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Lieberman |
| SIGNATURE | LIEBERMAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9024-3609 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 403 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Language
Dictionary of Medieval Judeo-Arabic in the India Book Letters from the Geniza and in Other Texts; and A Unique Hebrew Glossary from India: An Analysis of Judeo-Urdu
A Dictionary of Medieval Judeo-Arabic in the India Book Letters from the Geniza and in Other Texts. By Mordechai Akiva Friedman. Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2016. Pp. xxii + 1017. $37.A Unique Hebrew Glossary from India: An Analysis of Judeo-Urdu. By Aaron D. Rubin. Gorgias Handbooks. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 134. $48 (paper
Friederici, Angela D., foreword by Noam Chomsky. 2017. Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. xii, 284 pages, 61 color illustrations
Article Friederici, Angela D., foreword by Noam Chomsky. 2017. Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. xii, 284 pages, 61 color illustrations. was published on October 1, 2018 in the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture (volume 2, issue 2)
Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings
"Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings.." The European Legacy, 21(1), pp. 106–107
Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem
The Evolution of Speech and Language
The Evolution of Speech and Language
Vocal tract anatomy and the neural bases of talking
The Evolution of Human Language: Biolinguistic Perspectives
The way language as a human faculty has evolved is a question that preoccupies researchers from a wide spread of disciplines. In this book, a team of writers has been brought together to examine the evolution of language from a variety of such standpoints, including language's genetic basis, the anthropological context of its appearance, its formal structure, its relation to systems of cognition and thought, as well as its possible evolutionary a…
On the Neural Bases and Evolution of Free Will
The hermetic nature of linguistic research: A note to Jackendoff
The hermetic, exclusionary stance of formal linguistic research towards relevant data condemns the linguistic enterprise to irrelevance. The procedures and principles of evolutionary biology are excluded from discussions of the evolution of language. Stories are instead crafted to fit speculation. Although human speech is a central element of our linguistic capacity, the findings of studies of speech are thought to be outside the domain of lingui…
The Evolution of Human Speech: Its Anatomical and Neural Bases
Human speech involves species-specific anatomy deriving from the descent of the tongue into the pharynx. The human tongue's shape and position yields the 1:1 oral-to-pharyngeal proportions of the supralaryngeal vocal tract. Speech also requires a brain that can "reiterate"-freely reorder a finite set of motor gestures to form a potentially infinite number of words and sentences. The end points of the evolutionary process are clear. The chimpanzee…
Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language
In this forcefully argued book, the leading evolutionary theorist of language provides a framework for studying the evolution of human language and cognition. Philip Lieberman asserts that the widely influential theories of language’s development are inconsistent with principles and findings of evolutionary biology and neuroscience
Current views on Neanderthal speech capabilities: A reply to Boe et al. (2002)
The pied piper of Cambridge
The major “contribution” of generative grammar to cognitive science is negative. The hermetic disjuncture of linguistic research from biological principles and facts has influenced cognitive science. Linguists have followed the pied piper taking a different path from that pointed out by Charles Darwin. As Dobzhansky (1973) noted, “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” The hermetic nature of much linguistic research is …
Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain: The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought
On the nature and evolution of the neural bases of human language
The traditional theory equating the brain bases of language with Broca's and Wernicke's neocortical areas is wrong. Neural circuits linking activity in anatomically segregated populations of neurons in subcortical structures and the neocortex throughout the human brain regulate complex behaviors such as walking, talking, and comprehending the meaning of sentences. When we hear or read a word, neural structures involved in the perception or real-w…
Human language and our reptilian brain: The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought
In recent years, following Noam Chomsky's lead, linguistic research has virtually equated syntax with language. Syntactic ability is taken to be a unique characteristic of the human mind, deriving from genetically transmitted "language instinct."" "In this provocative book, Lieberman shifts the focus, arguing that language is not an instinct coded in a discrete cortical "language organ", but a learned skill, based on a Functional Language System …
The Origins of Complex Language: An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables, and Truth
The Origins of Complex Language: An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables, and Truth. Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy. Oxford. Oxford University Press, 1999. 260 pp
Approaches to the Evolution of Language
Functional tongues and neanderthal vocal tract reconstruction: A reply to Dr. Houghton (1993)
Hyoid bone position and speech: Reply to Dr. Arensburg et al. (1990)
Human language and human uniqueness
An Untrustworthy Guide to Ape-Language ResearchAping Language.Joel Wallman
On the Kebara KMH 2 Hyoid and Neanderthal Speech
Phonetic Ability and Related Anatomy of the Newborn and Adult Human, Neanderthal Man, and the Chimpanzee
The sounds of human speech make human language a rapid medium of communication through a process of speech "encoding." The presence of sounds like the vowels [a], [i], and [u] makes this process possible. The supralaryngeal vocal tracts of newborn Homo sapiens and chimpanzee are similar and resemble the reconstructed vocal tract of the fossil La Chapelle-aux-Saints Neanderthal man. Vocal tract area functions that were directed toward making best …
The biology and evolution of language
Some Effects of Semantic and Grammatical Context on the Production and Perception of Speech
Three speakers read aloud meaningful grammatical English sentences at a fast rate. Some of these sentences contained common maxims and stereotyped phrases. Other sentences which were less familiar contained, in similar phonetic environments, certain test words that also occurred in the stereotyped sentences. The test words were “excised”, i.e., gated out of all the sentences, and listening tests were performed by 43 listeners. Quite apart from th…
The Evolution of Human Speech: Its Anatomical and Neural Bases
Human speech involves species-specific anatomy deriving from the descent of the tongue into the pharynx. The human tongue's shape and position yields the 1:1 oral-to-pharyngeal proportions of the supralaryngeal vocal tract. Speech also requires a brain that can "reiterate"-freely reorder a finite set of motor gestures to form a potentially infinite number of words and sentences. The end points of the evolutionary process are clear. The chimpanzee…
On the Acoustic Basis of the Perception of Intonation by Linguists
1965). On the Acoustic Basis of the Perception of Intonation by Linguists. WORD: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 40-54
The anatomy, physiology, acoustics and perception of speech: Essential Elements in Analysis of the Evolution of Human Speech
On the nature and evolution of the neural bases of human language
The traditional theory equating the brain bases of language with Broca's and Wernicke's neocortical areas is wrong. Neural circuits linking activity in anatomically segregated populations of neurons in subcortical structures and the neocortex throughout the human brain regulate complex behaviors such as walking, talking, and comprehending the meaning of sentences. When we hear or read a word, neural structures involved in the perception or real-w…
On the Origins of Language: An Introduction to the Evolution of Human Speech
phonological systems or on the basis of their fidelity to model systems than on the basis of the success of the larger revolutions with which they are associated: revolutions in the production and consumption of economic goods (leading to new rural-urban populations [sic] distributions, new jobs, new training programs, new avocations, new pastimes, and new purposive social groups) and revolutions in the distributions of power and influence. All o…
Current views on Neanderthal speech capabilities: A reply to Boe et al. (2002)
On Neanderthal Speech and Neanderthal Extinction
A Social-Technological Model for the Evolution of Language [and Comments and Reply]
This paper develops a model for the evolution of language that is consistent with semanticist and pragmaticist interpretations of the forms and functions of language and the processes of language acquisition and language change. The proximate aspect of the model emphasizes the social contexts of language acquisition and language change; its adaptive aspect emphasizes the sociobiological concept of communication as social manipulation. Both aspect…
Language, Communication, Chimpanzees [and Comments and Reply]
In the last ten years, entirely new experiments have been undertaken in the field of animal communication. The works of Allen and Beatrice Gardner with the chimpanzee Washoe and David and Ann Premack with Sarah should have held the attention of linguists and semiologists more than they have up to now. It is from this standpoint that they are examined here
Can Chimpanzees Swallow or Talk? A Reply to Falk
Vocal tract anatomy and the neural bases of talking
On the evolution of human syntactic ability. Its pre-adaptive Bases-Motor control and speech
Phonetic features and physiology: A Reappraisal
On the Kebara KMH 2 Hyoid and Neanderthal Speech
On the Evolution of Language
Speech and Neanderthal Man: A Reply to Carlisle and Siegel
Human language and human uniqueness
Hyoid bone position and speech: Reply to Dr. Arensburg et al. (1990)
On human speech, syntax, and language
Some aspects of dimorphism and human speech
Structural harmony and Neandertäl speech: A reply to Le May
The Neandertäl supralaryngeal vocal tract reconstruction reported by Lieberman and Crelin ('71) is based on the methods of comparative anatomy. Normal adult‐like humans have a skeletal morphology in harmony with the soft tissue of their vocal tracts. This is also the case for non‐human primates and human newborns who have a different skeletal morphology in harmony with a different vocal tract. The “bits and pieces” that together constitute functi…
The Origins of Complex Language: An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables, and Truth
The Origins of Complex Language: An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables, and Truth. Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy. Oxford. Oxford University Press, 1999. 260 pp
Some Acoustic Correlates of Word Stress in American English
Twenty-five English noun-verb pairs, differing principally in their stress patterns, were recorded by 16 native speakers of American English. The fundamental frequency, relative amplitude, duration, and integral of the amplitude with respect to time of the stressed and unstressed syllables were measured and related to the aurally perceptible stress patterns. The relative value of these factors as cues to such patterns varied with different speake…
Some Effects of Semantic and Grammatical Context on the Production and Perception of Speech
Three speakers read aloud meaningful grammatical English sentences at a fast rate. Some of these sentences contained common maxims and stereotyped phrases. Other sentences which were less familiar contained, in similar phonetic environments, certain test words that also occurred in the stereotyped sentences. The test words were “excised”, i.e., gated out of all the sentences, and listening tests were performed by 43 listeners. Quite apart from th…
On the Acoustic Basis of the Perception of Intonation by Linguists
1965). On the Acoustic Basis of the Perception of Intonation by Linguists. WORD: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 40-54
Intonation, Perception and Language
The Articulatory Implementation of the Breath-Group and Prominence: Crico-Thyroid Muscular Activity in Intonation
A theory has been proposed (Lieberman 1967) that accounts for some aspects of intonation in terms of two phonologic features, the breath-group and prominence. Acoustic and physiologic correlates of these features were derived by experimental procedures that made use of subglottal air pressure and flow measurements as well as acoustic analysis. Perceptual data indicated that listeners ‘decoded’ certain intonational signals by means of ‘motor theor…
Linguistics: Mechanisms of Speech . N. I. Zinkin
Phonetic Ability and Related Anatomy of the Newborn and Adult Human, Neanderthal Man, and the Chimpanzee
The sounds of human speech make human language a rapid medium of communication through a process of speech "encoding." The presence of sounds like the vowels [a], [i], and [u] makes this process possible. The supralaryngeal vocal tracts of newborn Homo sapiens and chimpanzee are similar and resemble the reconstructed vocal tract of the fossil La Chapelle-aux-Saints Neanderthal man. Vocal tract area functions that were directed toward making best …
Reply to “A Note on Phonetic Ability
Speech and Neanderthal Man: A Reply to Carlisle and Siegel
The Speech of Primates
Structural harmony and Neandertäl speech: A reply to Le May
The Neandertäl supralaryngeal vocal tract reconstruction reported by Lieberman and Crelin ('71) is based on the methods of comparative anatomy. Normal adult‐like humans have a skeletal morphology in harmony with the soft tissue of their vocal tracts. This is also the case for non‐human primates and human newborns who have a different skeletal morphology in harmony with a different vocal tract. The “bits and pieces” that together constitute functi…
Prosodic Systems and Intonation in English
Preface 1. Some preliminary considerations 2. Past work on prosodic features 3. Voice-quality and sound attributes in prosodic study 4. The prosodic features of English 5. The intonation system of English 6. The grammar of intonation 7. The semantics of intonation Bibliography Index of persons Index of subjects
Language, Communication, Chimpanzees [and Comments and Reply]
In the last ten years, entirely new experiments have been undertaken in the field of animal communication. The works of Allen and Beatrice Gardner with the chimpanzee Washoe and David and Ann Premack with Sarah should have held the attention of linguists and semiologists more than they have up to now. It is from this standpoint that they are examined here
On the Origins of Language: An Introduction to the Evolution of Human Speech
Phonetic features and physiology: A Reappraisal
On the Origins of Language: An Introduction to the Evolution of Human Speech
phonological systems or on the basis of their fidelity to model systems than on the basis of the success of the larger revolutions with which they are associated: revolutions in the production and consumption of economic goods (leading to new rural-urban populations [sic] distributions, new jobs, new training programs, new avocations, new pastimes, and new purposive social groups) and revolutions in the distributions of power and influence. All o…
More on Hominid Evolution, Speech, and Language
A Reply to Carlisle and Siegel's Assessment of Neanderthal Speech Capabilities
Speech Physiology and Acoustic Phonetics
More Talk on Neanderthal Speech
Can Chimpanzees Swallow or Talk? A Reply to Falk
Quest for Fire . 1982. Directed by Jean‐Jacques Annaud
The biology and evolution of language
Acoustic analysis of words produced by a child from 46 to 149 weeks
We undertook a detailed computer-implemented acoustic analysis of the speech of a child from 46 to 149 weeks. We measured overall word duration and pitch perturbation (a measure of task-induced stress), in addition to measuring within-word phonetic segments. Results revealed that (1) there were strong age-dependent decreases in word duration but only at a relatively late stage (75–149 weeks); (2) degree of fluency was not correlated with vocal st…
A Social-Technological Model for the Evolution of Language [and Comments and Reply]
This paper develops a model for the evolution of language that is consistent with semanticist and pragmaticist interpretations of the forms and functions of language and the processes of language acquisition and language change. The proximate aspect of the model emphasizes the social contexts of language acquisition and language change; its adaptive aspect emphasizes the sociobiological concept of communication as social manipulation. Both aspect…
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