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Ilse Lehiste (until March 8, 1935 Lest , born January 31, 1922 in Tallinn , † December 25, 2010 in Columbus (Ohio) ) was an American linguist of Estonian origin, whose specialty was phonetics .

Life

Lehiste graduated from high school in Tallinn in 1941 and studied from 1942 at the University of Tartu in Estonia, which was then occupied by Germany . In 1944 she moved to Germany, where she studied German and Slavic studies in Leipzig and Hamburg . After completing her doctorate for the English poet William Morris in Hamburg, she went to the USA in 1949 and initially worked as a language teacher in Salina (Kansas) and Detroit . From 1955 she studied again, this time at the University of Michigan , where she received her doctorate in 1959 with a linguistic thesis.

After a few more years at the University of Michigan, she became a lecturer at Ohio State University in Columbus in 1963 , where she received a professorship two years later and remained until her retirement. In addition to numerous international honors, she was President of the Linguistic Society of America in 1980.

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Lehiste's main research focus was acoustic phonetics, from the area of ​​which she presented studies on many languages. In addition, she dealt with language contact, metrics and prosody, especially in Estonian and Finno-Ugric folk poetry, as well as linguistic change. After her retirement and the political changes at the end of the 1980s, she worked increasingly with Estonian linguists and presented numerous studies on Finno-Ugric languages .

Ilse Lehiste was also interested in literature and has dealt with Estonian literature in various essays. She also wrote poetry at a young age, which she published in 1989.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • About the ethics of the works of William Morris based on Old Norse sources . Hamburg: Phil. F., diss. V. July 12, 1948. 115 sheets (typewritten)
  • An acoustic-phonetic study of internal open juncture . Basel, New York: Karger 1960. 54 pp.
  • Accent in Serbocroation. An experimental study . Ann Arbor: Dep. of Slavic Languages ​​and Literatures 1963. 142 pp.
  • Some Acoustic Characteristics of Dysarthric Speech . (Bibliotheca Phonetica) Basel, New York: Karger 1965. 124 pp.
  • Consonant Quantity and Phonological Units in Estonian . Bloomington: Indiana University Publications (Uralic and Altaic Series, vol. 65) 1966. 73 pp.
  • Suprasegmentals . Cambridge / Mass .: MIT Press 1970. 194 pp.
  • Word and Sentence Prosody in Serbo-Croatian . Cambridge / Mass .: MIT Press 1986. 352 pp.
  • Lectures on Language Contact . Cambridge, MA; London, England: MIT Press 1988. 119 pp.
  • Språkkontakt . Översättning från engelskan av Ulla Ericson. Furulund: Alhambra 2000. 125 pp.
  • Keel kirjanduses . Koostaja Jaan Ross. Tartu: Ilmamaa 2000. 303 pp.
  • (with Jaan Ross ) The temporal structure of Estonian runic songs . Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter 2001. 205 pp.
  • (with Niina Aasmäe, Einar Meister, Karl Pajusalu, Pire Teras, Tiit-Rein Viitso :) Erzya prosody . Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura 2003. 137 pp.
  • (with Pire Teras, Toomas Help, Pärtel Lippus, Einar Meister, Karl Pajusalu, Tiit-Rein Viitso :) Meadow Mari prosody . Tallinn: Teaduste Akadeemia Kirjastus 2005. 142 pp.
  • (with Pire Teras, Valts Ernštreits, Pärtel Lippus, Karl Pajusalu, Tuuli Tuisk, Tiit-Rein Viitso :) Livonian prosody . Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura 2008. 165 pp.

items

  • A Poem in Halbdeutsch and Some Questions Concerning Substratum, in: Word 21, 1965 pp. 55-69.
  • 'Being' and 'Having' in Estonian, in: Foundations of Language 5, 1969, pp. 324-341.
  • Keelekontakt - keelekonflikt, in: Mana 42, 1976, pp. 5-14.
  • (with Dzintra Bond :) The Phonetic Realization of Trochaic Meter in Latvian and Estonian, in: Journal of Baltic Studies 1984, no. 4, pp. 293-302.
  • Successive translations as source of evidence for linguistic change, in: International Journal of the Sociology of Language 139, 1999, pp. 39-48.
  • (with Pire Teras, Karl Pajusalu, Tuuli Tuisk :) Quantity in Livonian: Preliminary results, in: Linguistica Uralica 43, 2007, pp. 29-44.

Poems

  • Noorest peast kirjutatud laulud. Luuletusi aastaist 1938–48 ('Songs from a young age. Poems from the years 1938–1944'). Scarborough, Ontario: Maarjamaa 1989. 79 pp.

Secondary literature

  • Robert Channon and Linda Shockey (eds.): In honor of Ilse Lehiste . Dordrecht, Providence, RI: Foris Publications 1987. 542 pp.
  • Paul Ariste : Ilse Lehiste keelesuhetest, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 4/1989, pp. 252-253.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, pp. 279-280.
  2. ↑ See e.g. E.g .: Ilse Lehiste: Tammsaare , Kangro , and the devil, in: Baltic Literature and Linguistics. Editors: Arvids Ziedonis et al. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University 1973, pp. 69-74; she also wrote reviews for World Literature Today .
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter L. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved December 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lehiste, Ilse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Read it, Ilse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian-American linguist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Tallinn
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 2010
Place of death Columbus (Ohio)