Everything about Leigh Lisker totally explained
Leigh Lisker (1918 - 2006) 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(External Link
). 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 (
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
(External Link) of
University of Hyderabad, India, Adrian Fourcin
(External Link) of
University College London, and Mario Rossi
(External Link) of the Institut de Phonétique at the
Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence.
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