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Philip Lieberman, Ph.D.
In Memoriam
October 25, 1934 to July 12, 2022
Research Staff, Haskins Laboratories, 1967-74
George Hazard Crooker University Professor Emeritus at Brown University
Philip Lieberman, a George Hazard Crooker University Professor Emeritus at Brown University, died on July 12, 2022 at the age of 87. Dr. Lieberman was a world-renowned cognitive scientist and phonetician, whose research focused on the nature and evolution of the biological bases of human language and cognition.
Education
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, M.I.T.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, M.I.T., 1958
Ph.D. Linguistics, M.I.T., 1966
Professional Appointments
1957-59, Research Assistant, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT
1958-62, Lieutenant, United States Air Force
1962-67, Research Staff, Speech Research Branch, Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories
1967-74, Research Staff Member, Haskins Laboratories
1967-68, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut
1969, Professor, University of Connecticut
1973-74, Acting Head, Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut
1974, Professor, Brown University
1975-77, 1981-86. Chairman, Department of Linguistics, Brown
1988 - 1991, Chairman, Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown
1992 -1997, George Hazard Crooker University Professor, Brown
1997, Fred M. Seed Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown
1999, Professor of Anthropology, Brown
Partial List of Books
Lieberman, Philip (1975). On the Origins of Language. New York: Macmillan.
Lieberman, Philip (1984). The Biology and Evolution of Language. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Lieberman, Philip (1998). Eve Spoke: Human Language and Human Evolution. Cambridge: W. W. Norton & Company.
Lieberman, Philip (2000). Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Lieberman, Philip (2006). Towards an Evolutionary Biology of Language. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Lieberman, Philip (2013). The Unpredictable Species. Princeton University Press.
Lieberman, Philip (2017). The Theory That Changed Everything: "On the Origin of Species" as a Work in Progress. Cambridge: Columbia University Press.
Read Philip Lieberman’s obituaries in the Tribute Archive and the Providence Journal.