Philip Lieberman
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Philip Lieberman is a linguist at Brown University. Originally trained in phonetics, he wrote a dissertation on intonation. The remainder of his career has focussed on topics in the evolution of language, and particularly the relationship between the evolution of the vocal tract and the evolution of speech and language. His work in this field stimulated considerable interest in this area.
Lieberman later became interested in photography and mountaineering, and has published on mountaineering in Switzerland.
He currently holds an endowed chair in the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University, and is also a professor in the Department of Anthropology. In the 1970s he was a professor of linguistics at the University of Connecticut and a research scientist at Haskins Laboratories.
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These are just some of Lieberman's many books:
- On the Origins of Language: An Introduction to the Evolution of Human Speech (The Macmillan series in physical anthropology) by Philip Lieberman (Paperback - Jun 1975) ISBN: 0023706902
- The biology and evolution of language (Paperback - 1987) ISBN: 0674074130
- Eve Spoke: Human Language and Human Evolution (Hardcover - 1987) ISBN: 0393040895
- Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain: The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought (Hardcover - 2002) ISBN: 067400793X
- Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language (Hardcover - 2006) ISBN: 0674021843
