Background
Landar, Herbert Jay was born on December 7, 1927 in New York City. Son of Leo and Mildred (Mann) Landar.
Landar, Herbert Jay was born on December 7, 1927 in New York City. Son of Leo and Mildred (Mann) Landar.
Bachelor, Queens College, 1949; Master of Arts, Yale University, 1955; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1960.
Member Southwest project in comparative psycholinguistics Social Science Research Council, 1955-1956. Instructor Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 1957-1959. Predoctoral fellow Social Science Research Council, 1959-1960.
Member department public health and preventive medicine Cornell University Medical College, Navajo-Cornell Clinic, Arizona, 1959-1960. Professor linguistics California State University.A., 1960-1991, professor emeritus, from 1991. Visiting professor Indiana University, Bloomington, 1976-1977, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 1987-1988.
With United States Army, 1950-1952. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Anthropological Association, Royal Anthropological Institute Great Britain and Ireland. Member Ling. Society of America, New York Academy of Sciences, Association Computational Linguistics, Society Américanistes Paris.
Married Muriel Anne Epstein. Children: Clifford, Nancy, Stephen.
