Education
In 1946, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1949 in linguistics.
In 1946, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1949 in linguistics.
Most of his career was spent at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a professor and then emeritus professor of linguistics. Doctor Lisker received his Bachelor of Arts in 1941, with a major in German, his Master of Arts He was a major figure in phonetics, working both at the University of Pennsylvania and at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut, where he was a senior scientist from 1951 until the end of his life. He collaborated with several phoneticians, principally Arthur South. Abramson.
He is best known for his work, done mostly in conjunction with Abramson, on voice onset time.
Doctor 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 Doctor 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., Cooper, F.S., & Liberman, Master of Arts