Alvin Liberman

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Alvin Liberman is affiliated with the following schools: Yale University, University of Missouri, University of Connecticut

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According to Wikipedia, Alvin Meyer Liberman was born in St. Joseph, Missouri. Liberman was an American psychologist. His ideas set the agenda for fifty years of psychological research in speech perception. Biography Liberman received his B.A. degree from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri in 1938, his M.A. degree from the University of Missouri in 1939 and his Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University in 1942. His ideas set the agenda for fifty years of research in the psychology of speech perception and laid the groundwork for modern computer speech synthesis and the understanding of critical issues in cognitive science. He took a biological perspective on language and his 'nativist' approach was often controversial as well as influential. He was a professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut and of linguistics at Yale University as well as president of Haskins Laboratories from 1975 through 1986. Liberman had a distinctive goal in mind. In order to reach this goal, he developed a project where he was to produce the sound output of a reading machine for the blind, a device that could scan, print, and produce a selective acoustic pattern for every component of the English alphabet. His paper on the "Perception of the Speech Code" in 1967 remains one of the most cited papers in the psychological literature. He is also known for his pioneering work with Dr. Franklin S. Cooper on the development of the reading machine for the blind in 1944. He is also known for the development of the motor theory of speech perception with Ignatius Mattingly in the 1960s and 1970s. Along with his wife, Isabelle Liberman, he elucidated the "alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading. He was a member of the National Academies of Science and of many other distinguished scientific societies. After retiring，Al remained an active, influential presence in the international scientific community. His publication record, which began in 1944 with an article in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, ended in 2000 with an article, coauthored with Douglas Whalen of Haskins Laboratories，in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Liberman continued giving well-received speeches and presentations and continued to act as a catalyst for research at various institutes such as the Brain Research Laboratory at the University of Technology in Finland. He received an award from the Finnish Academy of Sciences, the last of his many accolades. On January 13, 2000, Alvin Liberman died due to problems that occurred after heart surgery.

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Perception of the speech code. (1967) (3511)
The motor theory of speech perception revised (1985) (2650)
The discrimination of speech sounds within and across phoneme boundaries. (1957) (1607)
Functional disruption in the organization of the brain for reading in dyslexia. (1998) (909)
Acoustic Loci and Transitional Cues for Consonants (1954) (669)
An effect of linguistic experience: The discrimination of [r] and [l] by native speakers of Japanese and English (1975) (619)
On the relation of speech to language (2000) (474)
A specialization for speech perception. (1989) (467)
The alphabetic principle and learning to read. (1989) (420)
Cognitive Profiles of Reading-Disabled Children: Comparison of Language Skills in Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax (1995) (408)
Some Experiments on the Perception of Synthetic Speech Sounds (1952) (398)
The Angular Gyrus in Developmental Dyslexia: Task-Specific Differences in Functional Connectivity Within Posterior Cortex (2000) (366)
Some Results of Research on Speech Perception (1957) (358)
The role of consonant-vowel transitions in the perception of the stop and nasal consonants. (1954) (353)
Theoretical notes. Motor theory of speech perception: a reply to Lane's critical review. (1970) (336)
The Identification and Discrimination of Synthetic Vowels (1962) (331)
Some effects of later-occurring information on the perception of stop consonant and semivowel (1979) (327)
Speech: A Special Code (1996) (323)
The role of selected stimulus-variables in the perception of the unvoiced stop consonants. (1952) (294)
The discrimination of relative onset-time of the components of certain speech and nonspeech patterns. (1961) (278)
The Grammars of Speech and Language. (1970) (256)
An Experimental Study of the Acoustic Determinants of Vowel Color; Observations on One- and Two-Formant Vowels Synthesized from Spectrographic Patterns (1952) (238)
On Finding That Speech Is Special (1982) (225)
Some Cues for the Distinction Between Voiced and Voiceless Stops in Initial Position (1957) (222)
Tempo of frequency change as a cue for distinguishing classes of speech sounds. (1956) (208)
Speech perception takes precedence over nonspeech perception. (1987) (183)
Whole Language vs. Code Emphasis: Underlying assumptions and their implications for reading instruction (1990) (178)
Discrimination in speech and nonspeech modes (1971) (167)
Perceptual integration of acoustic cues for stop, fricative, and affricate manner. (1978) (164)
Parametrically Dissociating Speech and Nonspeech Perception in the Brain Using fMRI (2001) (164)
Some differences between phonetic and auditory modes of perception (1983) (141)
Perceptual equivalence of two acoustic cues for stop-consonant manner (1980) (133)
Acoustic Cues for the Perception of Initial /w, j, r, l/ in English (1957) (123)
Duplex perception of cues for stop consonants: Evidence for a phonetic mode (1981) (123)
The interconversion of audible and visible patterns as a basis for research in the perception of speech. (1951) (116)
The relation of speech to reading and writing (1992) (104)
THE EFFECT OF NEED FOR ACHIEVEMENT ON RECOGNITION OF NEED‐RELATED WORDS1 (1949) (99)
An Effect of Learning on Speech Perception: The Discrimination of Durations of Silence with and without Phonemic Significance (1961) (96)
Language Codes and Memory Codes. (1971) (92)
Minimal Rules for Synthesizing Speech (1959) (82)
Effect of Third‐Formant Transitions on the Perception of the Voiced Stop Consonants (1957) (82)
Some experiments on the sound of silence in phonetic perception. (1979) (80)
The Reading Researcher and the Reading Teacher Need the Right Theory of Speech. (1999) (78)
Why are speech spectrograms hard to read? (1968) (53)
On pushing the voice-onset-time (vot) boundary about. (1975) (50)
Some characteristics of perception in the speech mode. (1970) (47)
Differentiation of speech and nonspeech processing within primary auditory cortex. (2006) (41)
Exploring the “McGurk effect” (1983) (40)
On Pushing the Voice-Onset-Time (Vot) Boundary About (1977) (40)
Identification and Discrimination of a Phonemic Contrast Induced by Silent Interval (1961) (38)
THE FUNCTIONAL NEURAL ARCHITECTURE OF COMPONENTS OF ATTENTION IN LANGUAGE PROCESSING TASKS (1998) (36)
Reaction Time to Synthetic Stop Consonants and Vowels at Phoneme Centers and at Phoneme Boundaries (1963) (33)
Chapter 9 The Relation of Speech to Reading and Writing (1992) (30)
When Theories of Speech Meet the Real World (1998) (29)
The Speech Code and the Physiology of Language (1969) (25)
The Uses of Experiment in Language Description (1962) (21)
A specialization for speech perception revised (1985) (21)
In Speech Perception, Time Is Not What It Seems (1993) (19)
Limits on phonetic integration in duplex perception (1996) (19)
Identification and Discrimination of Rounded and Unrounded Vowels (1963) (19)
Why is Speech so Much Easier than Reading and Writing (1995) (19)
On the Immediacy of Phonetic Perception (1997) (18)
IN SEARCH OF THE ACOUSTIC CUES (1972) (18)
Erratum: Some Experiments on the Perception of Synthetic Speech Sounds [J. Acoust, Soc. Am. 24, 597 (1952)] (1953) (17)
The effect of interpolated activity on spontaneous recovery from experimental extinction. (1944) (14)
How Theories of Speech Affect Research in Reading and Writing * (2009) (12)
Synthetic speech: a study of the auditory perception of complex sounds. (1950) (10)
Reading Is Hard Just Because Listening Is Easy (2009) (10)
Mimicry and the Perception of a Phonemic Contrast Induced by Silent Interval: Electromyographic and Acoustic Measures (1961) (10)
Silent Interval as a Cue for the Distinction between Stops and Semivowels in Medial Position (1959) (10)
Crosslinguistic Study of Vowel Discrimination (1964) (9)
Further investigation into the influence of preceding liquids on stop consonant perception (1981) (9)
A comparison of transfer effects during acquisition and extinction of two instrumental responses. (1951) (9)
Speech and Other Auditory Modules (2009) (9)
Speech and nonspeech percepts from the same sound (1978) (9)
Observations from the sidelines (1991) (8)
Some Assumptions about Speech and How They Changed * (2009) (8)
The effect of differential extinction on spontaneous recovery. (1948) (7)
The Functional Organization of Brain for Reading and Reading Disability (Dyslexia (1996) (6)
Preliminary Studies of Speech Produced by a Pattern Playback (1950) (6)
Reaction Time during the Discrimination of Synthetic Stop Consonants (1964) (6)
Rate and Duration of Change in Formant Frequency as Cues for the Identification of Speech Sounds (1954) (4)
Neuroanatomy of Reading and Dyslexia (1997) (4)
Three questions for a theory of speech (1998) (4)
Cross-Language Study of the Perception of the F 3 Cue for [r] versus [1] in Speech- and Nonspeech-Like Patterns (1975) (4)
Trading relation in perception between silence and spectrum (1977) (4)
Discrimination of F2 Transitions in Speech Context and in Isolation (1969) (3)
Some observations on how the perception of syllable‐initial [b] versus [w] is affected by the remainder of the syllable (1978) (3)
Study of One Factor in the Perception of the Unvoiced Stop Consonants (1952) (3)
Perceptual assessment of vowel duration in consonantal context and its application to vowel identification (1977) (3)
Further observations on the role of silence as a cue for stop consonants (1976) (3)
Analysis and Synthesis of Speech‐Like Sounds (1949) (2)
Some ecological constraints on the perception of stops and affricates (1976) (2)
Effect of Learning on Perception: Discrimination of Relative Onset Time of the Formants in Certain Speech and Non‐Speech Patterns (1959) (2)
Modularity and the Effects of Experience * (2009) (2)
Masking‐like phenomena in speech perception (1975) (2)
Differential Sensitivity to Synthetic Speech Sounds within and between Phoneme Categories (1956) (2)
Context‐conditioned adaptation of liquids and their third formant components (1975) (2)
Second and Third Formant Transitions in English Fricatives (1960) (2)
Discrimination of F2 Transitions in Speech and Non‐speech Contexts (1970) (2)
Response : A Specialization for Speech Perception? (1989) (1)
Independence of scene analys's and the speech module (1991) (1)
Plausibility , Parsimony , and Theories of Speech * (2009) (1)
FMRI Analysis of Auditory Processing in the Temporal Lobe (1998) (1)
Combined Spectral and Temporal Segmentation of Speech (1959) (1)
What a perception–production link does for language (1983) (1)
The perceptual equivalence of trading‐relation cues (1979) (1)
Initial and Intervocalic Cues for the Perception of Liquids and Semivowels (1957) (1)
Perception of vowel and syllable duration in VC and CVC syllables (1975) (1)
Second‐ and Third‐Formant Loci in English Fricative Consonants (1961) (1)
Speech Research. A Report on the Status and Progress of Studies on the Nature of Speech, Instrumentation for Its Investigation, and Practical Applications—Status Report 1 July–31 Dec. 80 (1978) (0)
The use of duplex perception to study silence as a cue for stop consonants (1979) (0)
Silence as a phonetic cue: Evidence from a study of duplex perception (1981) (0)
DUPLEX PERCEPTION OF ACOUSTIC PATTERNS AS SPEECH AND NONSPEECH (2009) (0)
Vowel information conveyed by consonant transitions (1975) (0)
Reading, reading machines, and communications research (1993) (0)
Some relations between duration of silence and duration of friction noise as joint cues for fricatives, affricates, and stops (1977) (0)
Rate of Information Transmission for 1‐, 2‐, and 3‐Dimensional Acoustic Stimuli (1963) (0)
DISCUSSION PAPER (1976) (0)
Vertically unparalleled (1985) (0)
Status Report on Speech Research, 1 January-31 March 1982. (1982) (0)
Status and progress of studies on the nature of speech, instrumentation for its investigation and practical applications (1983) (0)
Speech research: Studies on the nature of speech, instrumentation for its investigation, and practical applications (1982) (0)
Status Report on Speech Research. A Report on the Status and Progress of Studies on the Nature of Speech, Instrumentation for Its Investigation, and Practical Applications. (1983) (0)
Status Report on Speech Research 1 July - 31 December 1982. (1982) (0)

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