Leigh Lisker
American linguist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Leigh Lisker was an eminent American linguist and phonetician. Most of his career was spent at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a professor and then emeritus professor of linguistics. Dr. Lisker received his A.B. in 1941, with a major in German, his M.A. in 1946, and a Ph.D. in 1949 in linguistics. He was a major figure in phonetics, working both at the University of Pennsylvania and at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, CT, where he was a senior scientist from 1951 until the end of his life. He collaborated with several phoneticians, principally Arthur S. Abramson. He is best known for his work, done mostly in conjunction with Abramson, on voice onset time. Dr. Lisker also made important contributions to Dravidian linguistics, including the book Introduction to Spoken Telugu , and did research comparing phonetic and phonological perceptions on the part of linguistically naive and linguistically sophisticated speakers of different native language backgrounds. He conducted such studies in collaboration with Dr. Abramson of the University of Connecticut, Bh. Krishnamurti of University of Hyderabad, India, Adrian Fourcin of University College London, and Mario Rossi of the Institut de Phonétique at the Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence.
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- A Cross-Language Study of Voicing in Initial Stops: Acoustical Measurements (1964) (2528)
- Some Effects of Context On Voice Onset Time in English Stops (1967) (540)
- “Voicing” in English: A Catalogue of Acoustic Features Signaling /b/ Versus /p/ in Trochees (1986) (339)
- Closure Duration and the Intervocalic Voiced-Voiceless Distinction in English (1957) (279)
- Letter: Is it VOT or a first-formant transition detector? (1975) (171)
- Voice-Timing Perception in Spanish Word-Initial Stops. (1973) (161)
- DISTINCTIVE FEATURES AND LARYNGEAL CONTROL (1971) (137)
- FO gives voicing information even with unambiguous voice onset times. (1993) (131)
- An Effect of Learning on Speech Perception: The Discrimination of Durations of Silence with and without Phonemic Significance (1961) (96)
- Crosslanguage Study of Voicing in Initial Stops (1963) (88)
- Minimal Rules for Synthesizing Speech (1959) (82)
- Rapid versus rabid: A catalogue of acoustic features that may cue the distinction (1977) (74)
- Transillumination of the larynx in running speech. (1966) (69)
- Minimal Cues for Separating /w, r, l, y/ in Intervocalic Position (1957) (56)
- Supraglottal Air Pressure in the Production of English Stops (1970) (51)
- On pushing the voice-onset-time (vot) boundary about. (1975) (50)
- Perceiving Final Voiceless Stops without Release: Effects of Preceding Monophthongs versus Nonmonophthongs (1999) (43)
- On Pushing the Voice-Onset-Time (Vot) Boundary About (1977) (40)
- In Qualified Defense of VOT (1978) (40)
- Voice Timing in Korean Stops (1972) (38)
- Gradient Effects of Fundamental Frequency on Stop Consonant Voicing Judgments (1990) (37)
- Observing Laryngeal Adjustments during Running Speech by Use of a Fiberoptics System (1970) (36)
- STOP DURATION AND VOICING IN ENGLISH (1972) (21)
- The Uses of Experiment in Language Description (1962) (21)
- Introduction to spoken Telugu (1963) (19)
- Physiological Aspects of Certain Laryngeal Features in Stop Production (1973) (17)
- On buzzing the English /b/ (1978) (16)
- Stop Categorization and Voice Onset Time (1965) (15)
- Voicing in intervocalic stops and fricatives in Dutch (1979) (15)
- Voice Timing: Cross‐Language Experiments in Identification and Discrimination (1968) (14)
- Linguistic Segments, Acoustic Segments, and Synthetic Speech (1957) (12)
- On generalizing the rabid‐rapid distinction based on silent gap duration (1980) (12)
- Spectrographic comparison of ranges of vibration frequency among some innocent cardiac murmurs in childhood and some murmurs of valvular insufficiency. (1957) (10)
- Cinegraphic Observations of the Larynx during Voiced and Voiceless Stops (1970) (10)
- Evolution of Malayalam (1954) (10)
- How Is the Aspiration of English /p, t, k/ "Predictable"? (1984) (10)
- Laryngeal Management At Utterance-Internal Word Boundary in American English (1984) (9)
- ON LEARNING A NEW CONTRAST (1978) (8)
- On Hultzén's “Voiceless Lenis Stops in Prevocalic Clusters” (1963) (8)
- On the Interpretation of Vowel “Quality”: The Dimension of Rounding (1989) (8)
- Closure hiatus: cue to voicing, manner and place of consonant occlusion (1977) (7)
- The pursuit of invariance in speech signals. (1985) (7)
- Factors in the Maintenance and Cessation of Voicing (1977) (7)
- The pursuit of invariance in speech signals (1983) (6)
- The Distinction between [æ] and [ε]: A Problem in Acoustic Analysis@@@The Distinction between [ae] and [e]: A Problem in Acoustic Analysis (1948) (5)
- Tamil Verb Classification (1951) (5)
- Context‐determined effects of varying closure duration (1979) (5)
- On reconciling monophthongal vowel percepts and continuously varying F patterns (1984) (5)
- Looking at the Larynx during Running Speech (1971) (3)
- Glottal Modes in Consonant Distinctions (1972) (3)
- Speech across a linguistic boundary: category naming and phonetic description (1979) (3)
- On Perceiving Certain Voiceless Unaspirated Stops (2003) (2)
- On Nasals and Nasalization in Modern Tamil (1972) (2)
- Phonetic Validation of Distinctive Features: A Test Case in French (1987) (2)
- Kolami, a Dravidian Language (1961) (2)
- Anatomy of Unstressed Syllables (1958) (1)
- Stop voicing production and perception: Natural outputs and synthesized inputs (1975) (1)
- Interpreting vowel “quality”: The dimension of rounding (1988) (1)
- Initial and Intervocalic Cues for the Perception of Liquids and Semivowels (1957) (1)
- Fundamental frequency provides voicing information even with unambiguous VOTs (1988) (1)
- The reliability of closure features as cues to medial stop voicing in English (1978) (1)
- Motion Pictures of the Vocal Folds in Speech (1970) (1)
- Stop voicing, intonation, and the F0 contour (1984) (0)
- Perception of Voice Timing in Spanish Stop Consonants (1972) (0)
- When is a stop aspirated (1990) (0)
- Laryngeal adjustments in the production of voiceless unaspirated, aspirated, and glottalized stops (1980) (0)
- Jack Windsor Lewis (ed.), Studies in general and English phonetics: essays in honour of Professor J. D. O'Connor. London: Routledge, 1995. Pp. xxii+473. (1997) (0)
- Measurement for measurement’s sake: Phonologically irrelevant stop voicing durations (1995) (0)
- Book Review:Kalapuya Texts Melville Jacobs, L. J. Frachtenberg, A. S. Gatschet (1946) (0)
- STUDENTS' MANUAL OF MODERN FORMAL TAMIL. (1966) (0)
- Temporal planning and the voicing contrast (1976) (0)
- The curious case of English /w/ and /y/ (1993) (0)
- Medial voicing distinctions in English trochees (1990) (0)
- A Plaintive Note re the Recent IPA Revisions (1992) (0)
- Leigh Lisker, PhD (2006) (0)
- 12. The voiceless unaspirated stops of English (2002) (0)
- Voiced versus voiceless inaspirates: Acoustic measurements of English stops (1991) (0)
- FO Gives Voicing Information even with Unambiguous VOTs * (2009) (0)
- Orchestrating Acoustic Cues to Linguistic Effect * (2009) (0)
- Tracking the gliding tongue and lips: Articulatory undershoot or perceptual overshoot or ...? (1993) (0)
- The Phonetics of Macedonian by N. Minissi, N. Kitanovski, and U. Cinque (1984) (0)
- Distinctive, redundant, predictable, neotssary, sufficffint accounting for English /bdg/-/ptk/ (1990) (0)
- Some Cues to the Voiced‐Voiceless Distinction among the Intervocalic Stops in English (1957) (0)
- Voiced versus voiceless inaspirates: The perception of English stops (1991) (0)
- Sternohold activity during utterances containing three classes of voiceless stops (1981) (0)
- R. E. Asher and Eugénie J. A. Henderson (eds.), Towards a history of phonetics. Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 1981. Pp. xi + 317. (1983) (0)
- (/b/ → /p/) bul ⅂ (/p/ → /b/) (1979) (0)
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