Mahmood Bijankhan
Mahmood Bijankhan | |
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| Born | 1958 (age 66–67) Abadan, Iran |
| Awards | Khwarizmi International Award |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Tehran, University of Texas at Arlington |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Phonology, Phonetics, Corpus linguistics |
Mahmoud Bijankhan (Persian: محمود بیجنخان; born 1958 in Abadan) is an Iranian linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of Tehran. He is the creator of Bijankhan Corpus and a winner of Khwarizmi International Award. 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.