Mahmood Bijankhan Explained

Birth Date:	1958
Birth Place:	Abadan, Iran
Alma Mater:	University of Tehran, University of Texas at Arlington
Main Interests:	Phonology, Phonetics, Corpus linguistics
Awards:	Khwarizmi International Award

Mahmoud Bijankhan (Persian: محمود بی‌جن‌خان; born 1958 in Abadan) is an Iranian linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of Tehran.^[1] He is the creator of Bijankhan Corpus and a winner of Khwarizmi International Award.^{[2] [3]} Bijankhan received his BSc in applied mathematics from the University of Texas at Arlington (1981) and his MA (1990) and PhD (1996) in linguistics from the University of Tehran. He is known for his research on Persian phonetics and phonology and creating Persian corpora.^{[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]}

Books

• Phonology: Optimality Theory, Tehran: SAMT, 2006
• A Feasibility Study for Analysis of Ezafe in Persian Using Pattern Matching, Tehran: Research Center for Culture, Art and Communication, 2008
• Persian Language and Computers (ed.), Tehran: SAMT, 2011
• Frequency Dictionary, Tehran: University of Tehran Press, 2013
• Phonetic System of the Persian Language, Tehran: SAMT, 2014

See also

• Bijankhan Corpus

External links

• Articles by Bijankhan
• Bijankhan Corpus
• Persian Corpora

Notes and References

1. https://rtis.ut.ac.ir/cv/mbjkhan/?lang=en-gb Mahmood Bijankhan
2. Web site: An Interview with Mahmood Bijankhan . 2015-03-02 . 2013-11-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131112094505/http://web.ut.ac.ir/moddat/archive/archive71/Pages18-21.pdf . dead .
3. http://ece.ut.ac.ir/DBRG/Bijankhan/ Bijankhan Corpus
4. A review of "Phonology: Optimality Theory", Omid Tabibzadeh, Zabanshenasi, Tehran: Iran University Press, 2006
5. http://alpage.inria.fr/~sagot/pub/ICIL11.pdf A new morphological lexicon and a POS tagger for the Persian Language
6. http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~davidson/Texts/bijankhan_et_al_2011_persian_corpus_lessons.pdf Lessons from building a Persian written corpus
7. A Study of Corpus Development for Persian . dead . International Journal on Asian Language Processing . 20 . 1 . 17–33 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402154303/http://www.colips.org/journal/volume20/20_1_-2-masood-ghayoomi.pdf . 2015-04-02 . 2015-03-02.
8. The Persian pitch accent and its retention after the focus . 10.1016/j.lingua.2012.06.002 . Lingua . SI: Varieties of Pitch Accent Systems . October 2012 . 122 . 13 . 1380–1394 . Abolhasanizadeh . Vahideh . Bijankhan . Mahmood . Gussenhoven . Carlos .
9. Voice onset time in Persian initial and intervocalic stop production . 10.1017/S0025100309990168 . 2009 . Bijankhan . Mahmood . Nourbakhsh . Mandana . Journal of the International Phonetic Association . 39 . 3 . 335–364 .