Mahmood Bijankhan

Mahmood Bijankhan (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 University of Texas at Arlington (1981) and his MA (1990) and PhD (1996) in linguistics from University of Tehran. He is known for his research on Persian phonetics and phonology and creating Persian corpora.[4][5][6][7][8][9]

Mahmood Bijankhan
Born1958
Abadan, Iran
AwardsKhwarizmi International Award
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Tehran, University of Texas at Arlington
Academic work
Main interestsPhonology, Phonetics, Corpus linguistics

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

References
  1. Mahmood Bijankhan
  2. An Interview with Mahmood Bijankhan
  3. Bijankhan Corpus
  4. A review of "Phonology: Optimality Theory", Omid Tabibzadeh, Zabanshenasi, Tehran: Iran University Press, 2006
  5. A new morphological lexicon and a POS tagger for the Persian Language
  6. Lessons from building a Persian written corpus
  7. A Study of Corpus Development for Persian
  8. The Persian pitch accent and its retention after the focus
  9. Voice onset time in Persian initial and intervocalic stop production
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