Philip Lieberman

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| name = Philip Lieberman

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|10|25|df=y}}

| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|07|12|1934|10|25|df=y}}

| death_place = Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.

| workplaces = Brown University

| alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)

}}

Philip Lieberman (October 25, 1934 – July 12, 2022)[https://books.google.com/books?id=rNy1hVGq2sMC&pg=PA490 'Philip Lieberman'] in the contributors list (page 490) for {{Cite book|title=Organization of Behavior in Face-to-face Interaction|year=1975|publisher=Walter de Gruyter}}[https://www.olsonparent.com/obituary/Philip-Lieberman Philip Lieberman] was a cognitive scientist at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Originally trained in phonetics, he wrote a dissertation on intonation. His career focused on topics in the evolution of language, and particularly the relationship between the evolution of the vocal tract, the human brain, and the evolution of speech, cognition and language.

Biography

Lieberman initially studied electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his doctorate in linguistics from MIT, completing his dissertation in 1966. In the late 1950s and 1960s he worked as a research assistant before serving in the United States Air Force, carrying out research at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (AFCRL) and Hanscom Air Force Base as well as working at Haskins Laboratories.

From 1967 to 1974 he worked at the University of Connecticut.[https://books.google.com/books?id=j6Y2hNf35J4C&pg=PR28 'Philip Lieberman'] in the contributors list (page xxviii) for {{Cite book|title=Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology|year=1994| publisher=Taylor & Francis}}{{cite web| url=http://research.brown.edu/pdf/1106970096.pdf| title=Curriculum Vitae – Philip Lieberman| access-date=22 March 2012 |publisher=Brown University (Research at Brown)}}

In 1974 he was appointed to the faculty at Brown University, where he was George Hazard Crooker Professor from 1992 to 1997. In 1997 he became the Fred M. Seed Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, and in 1999 he became Professor of Anthropology, both at Brown University. Since 2012, when he retired from teaching, he became The George Hazard Crooker University Professor, emeritus

Lieberman was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in psychology in 1987.{{cite web| url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/8801-philip-lieberman| archive-url=https://archive.today/20120801050439/http://www.gf.org/fellows/8801-philip-lieberman| url-status=dead| archive-date=1 August 2012| title=Philip Lieberman| publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation| access-date=22 March 2012}} In 1990, Lieberman gave the Nijmegen Lectures of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics under the title 'The evolution of language and cognition'.{{cite web| url=http://www.mpi.nl/events/complete-list-of-nijmegen-lectures-1982-2010| title=Complete list of Nijmegen Lectures 1982 – 2010| publisher=Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics| access-date=22 March 2012}} He was also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the American Anthropological Association.{{cite web| url=http://carta.anthropogeny.org/users/plieberman| title=Philip Lieberman| publisher=Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny| access-date=22 March 2012}}

Lieberman's interests included photography and mountaineering. A collection of over 400 photographs of Nepal by Lieberman is held at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology.{{cite web| title=Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology| url=http://brown.edu/Departments/South_Asia/community.html| publisher=South Asia at Brown, Brown University| access-date=24 March 2012| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111101095520/http://www.brown.edu/Departments/South_Asia/community.html| archive-date=1 November 2011}} Lieberman's photographs have also been exhibited at and are in the collections at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum.[https://books.google.com/books?id=mbSf-If47JAC&pg=PA239 'About the Author' and 'About the Photographer'] in {{cite book|title=Walking the Alpine Parks of France & Northwest Italy| author=Marcia Lieberman| publisher=The Mountaineers Books| year=1994}} His photographs of life in remote Himalayan regions can be viewed on the website of the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library.

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|title=The Tibetan and Himalayan Library

|access-date=2013-03-21

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Partial list of works

{{cite book | last = Lieberman | first = Philip | title = On the Origins of Language | publisher = Macmillan | location = New York | date = June 1975 | isbn = 0-02-370690-2 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/onoriginsoflangu0000lieb }}
{{cite book | last = Lieberman | first = Philip | title = The Biology and Evolution of Language | url = https://archive.org/details/biologyevolution00lieb | url-access = registration | publisher = Harvard University Press | location = Cambridge | year = 1984 | isbn = 0-674-07413-0 }}
{{cite book | last = Lieberman | first = Philip | title = Eve Spoke: Human Language and Human Evolution | publisher = W. W. Norton & Company | location = Cambridge | year = 1998 | isbn = 978-0-393-04089-0 }}
{{cite book | last = Lieberman | first = Philip | title = Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain | publisher = Harvard University Press | location = Cambridge | year = 2000 | isbn = 978-0-674-00793-2 }}
{{cite book | last = Lieberman | first = Philip | title = Towards an Evolutionary Biology of Language | publisher = Harvard University Press | location = Cambridge | year = 2006 | isbn = 0-674-02184-3}}
{{cite book | last = Lieberman | first = Philip | title = The Unpredictable Species | publisher = Princeton University Press | year = 2013}}
{{cite book | last = Lieberman | first = Philip | title = The Theory That Changed Everything: "On the Origin of Species" as a Work in Progress | publisher = Columbia University Press | location = Cambridge | year = 2017 | isbn = 978-0-231-17808-2}}

References

External links

;Biographical

[http://www.cog.brown.edu/people_lieberman_personal.htm Philip Lieberman] (Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University)
[http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Anthropology/people/facultypage.php?id=1106970096 Philip Lieberman] (Anthropology Department at Brown University)
[http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Philip_Lieberman Philip Lieberman] (Research Profile at Brown University)
[http://carta.anthropogeny.org/users/plieberman Philip Lieberman] (CARTA profile – Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny)

;Other

[http://dl.lib.brown.edu/BuddhistTempleArt/ Tibetan Buddhist Wall Paintings of Mustang, Nepal] by Philip and Marcia R. Lieberman (Brown University Library Center for Digital Initiatives)
[http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~jim/liebermanrevu.html Review by James R. Hurford of Human Language and our Reptilian Brain], Quarterly Review of Biology, September 2001 (Edinburgh University)
[https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/lieberman-eve.html First chapter of Eve Spoke] (part of a set of 'first chapters' hosted by The New York Times books section, account required)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20090801000528/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3339812/Neanderthals-speak-for-first-time-in-50000-years.html Neanderthals speak for first time in 50,000 years], April 2008 news story (The Daily Telegraph)
[http://www.rmanyc.org/events/load/1552 Mind the Altitude], February 2012 lecture with Kurt Diemberger (Rubin Museum of Art)

Category:1934 births

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Category:Linguists from the United States

Category:Anthropological linguists

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Category:Haskins Laboratories scientists

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Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni

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