Ilse Lehiste

Professor Emeritus

Research Areas

Acoustic Phonetics
Prosody
Language Contact
Estonian
Phonetics and Phonology
Serbocroatian Accentology

Current Research Program

I am currently engaged in research on the phonetic realization of metrical structure in orally produced poetry in several languages.

Recent Publications

"The phonetic realization of the haiku form in Estonian poetry, compared to Japanese." In: Speech Production and Language: In Honor of Osamu Fujimura. Ed. by Shigeru Kiritani, Hajime Hirose, and Hiroya Fujisaki. Speech Research 13 (1997). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 241-249.
"Cross-linguistic comparison of prosodic patterns in Finnish, Finland-Swedish, and Stockholm Swedish." In: Stig Eliasson and Ernst Hakon Jahr (eds.), Language and Its Ecology: Essays in Memory of Einar Haugen. Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 100. (1997). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 367-377.
"Search for phonetic correlates in Estonian prosody". In: Estonian Prosody: Papers from a Symposium. Ed. by Ilse Lehiste and Jaan Ross. (1997). Tallinn: Institute of Estonian Language. Pp. 11-35.
"Partitive or Illative?" Linguistica Uralica XXXIV, 3 (1998), 162-166.
Jaan Ross and Ilse Lehiste, "Timing in Estonian folksongs as interaction between speech prosody, metre, and musical rhythm." Music Perception 15, 4 (1998), 319-333.

Brief Biography

I was born on January 31, 1922 in Tallinn, Estonia. I came to the United States in l949 after receiving a Doctor of Philology degree from the University of Hamburg. I received a Ph. D. in linguistics from the University of Michigan in l959 and have received a D. Univ. (hon.) from Essex University, England, l977, a Dr. Phil. (hon.) from the University of Lund, Sweden, l982, and a Dr. Phil. (hon.) from the Tartu University, Estonia, l989. I am the author of 11 books, the latest being Lectures on Language Contact, MIT Press, l988, 176 articles in professional journals, and 101 reviews.

Positions Held

Lecturer, U. Hamburg, l948-49
Associate Professor of Modern Languages, Kansas Wesleyan U., l950-5l
Associate Professor of Modern Languages, Detroit Institute of Technology, l95l-56
Research Associate, U. Mich., l957-63
Ohio State University l963 - l987 (Associate Professor, l963-l965; Professor of Linguistics, l965-87; Prof. emer., l987-present)
Chairman of Dept. of Linguistics, l965-7l, l985-87
Director, Linguistic Institute, OSU, l970
Visiting professor, U. Cologne, Germany, l965; U. Vienna, Austria, l974; U. Tokyo, Japan, l980

Fellowships and Memberships

Foreign Member, Finnish Academy of Sciences
Guggenheim fellow, l969, l975
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, l975-76
Fellow, AAAS, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Acoustical Society of America, and International Society of Phonetic Sciences
Member, MLA, LSA (president, 1980), Societas Linguistica Europaea

Mailing Address:

Home: 985 Kennington Avenue, Columbus, OH 43220-4018
Office: Dept. Ling., OSU, l7l2 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210-1298

Email address:

ilsele@ling.ohio-state.edu

Phone:

Home: (6l4) 45l-5743
Office: (6l4) 292-4052

Fax:

6l4-292-4273

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