Background
Lehiste, Ilse was born on January 31, 1922 in Tallinn, Estonia. Daughter of Aleksander and Julie M. (Sikka) Lehiste. came to the United States, 1949, naturalized, 1956.
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Ilse Lehiste
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Doctor of Philosophy, University Hamburg, Germany, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Essex, England, 1977.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Lund, Sweden, 1982. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Tartu, Estonia, 1989. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Ohio State University, Columbus, 1999.
Career
Lecturer, U. Hamburg, 1948-1949; associate professor modern languages, Kansas Wesleyan University, 1950-1951; associate professor modern languages, Detroit Institute Technology, 1951-1956; research associate, University of Michigan, 1957-1963; faculty, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1963-1987; professor linguistics, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1965-1987; professor emeritus, Ohio State University, Columbus, since 1987; department chairman, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1965-1971, 85-87. Director Linguistic Institute Ohio State University, 1970. Visiting professor U. Cologne, Germany, 1965, University of California at Los Angeles, 1966, U. Vienna, 1974, U. Tokyo, 1980.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Linguistic Society of America (executive committee 1971-1973, president 1980), Acoustical Society of America, American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member: Modern Language Association, Estonia Academy of Sciences (foreign), International Speech Communications Association, Finnish Academy of Sciences, Societas Linguistica Europaea, International Society Phonetic Sciences.
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Nationality
Estonian
Education
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1948
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1959
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1977
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1982
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1989
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1999
Awards
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Recipient medal for science achievement, International Speech Communications Association, 2002. Fellow Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1975-1976. Grantee American Council Learned Societies, 1971. Guggenheim fellow, 1969, 1975.Recipient medal for science achievement, International Speech Communications Association, 2002. Fellow Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1975-1976. Grantee American Council Learned Societies, 1971.
Guggenheim fellow, 1969, 1975.