American linguist best known for her comparative studies of Native American languages and for her many textbooks on languages of the Far East, especially Thai
If sounds arrive from several sources, the ears and brain will identify only the nearest In other words, if our ears receive similar sounds coming from various sources, the brain will latch onto the sound that arrives first If the time difference is up to 50 milliseconds, the early arrival sound can dominate the later arrival sound, even if the later arrival is as much as 10 dB louder The discovery of this effect is attributed to Halmut Haas in 1949
born Jan. 12, 1910, Richmond, Ind., U.S. died May 17, 1996, Alameda county, Calif. U.S. linguist. She studied with Edward Sapir at Yale University, where her dissertation was on Tunica, a moribund American Indian language. She continued her fieldwork on, and comparative studies of, American Indian languages, especially of the southeastern U.S., including the Natchez and Muskogean languages, for the rest of her life. She directed the Survey of California Indian Languages while on the University of California, Berkeley, faculty (1945-77). Many of her students have done invaluable descriptive work on nearly extinct languages
born Jan. 12, 1910, Richmond, Ind., U.S. died May 17, 1996, Alameda county, Calif. U.S. linguist. She studied with Edward Sapir at Yale University, where her dissertation was on Tunica, a moribund American Indian language. She continued her fieldwork on, and comparative studies of, American Indian languages, especially of the southeastern U.S., including the Natchez and Muskogean languages, for the rest of her life. She directed the Survey of California Indian Languages while on the University of California, Berkeley, faculty (1945-77). Many of her students have done invaluable descriptive work on nearly extinct languages