LINKS to stuff mentioned in class 7 July 2011

I mentioned in class a paper by Bill Poser on Thomas Young’s proposal that Basque and Egyptian are historically related.  Here is the URL for that paper:  http://www.billposer.org/Papers/young.pdf

And, if you are serious about wanting to know the history ideas and accomplishments in diachronic phonology, you owe it to yourself to at least look at the Wikipedia (what a wonderful resource!) for:

van Boxhorn:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Zuerius_van_Boxhorn

ten Kate: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_ten_Kate   this is in Dutch but you can avail yourself of Google’s translation if you wish.

as well as this account by GERRIT H. JONGENEELEN of ten Kate’s linguistic contributions:  http://home.wanadoo.nl/vvdghj/KV/ch20s06.html

de Brosses:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Brosses

James Burnet, Lord Monboddo:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burnett,_Lord_Monboddo 

Hervas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Herv%C3%A1s_y_Panduro

Ihre:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Ihre

Thomas Young:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Young_%28scientist%29

This Wikipedia entry also mentions his offering a universal phonetic alphabet which I neglected to mention in my lectures.  But I have an original edition of his Göttingen dissertation (1796; "De corporis hvmani viribvs conservatricibvs. Dissertatio.") where this alphabet is presented.  You’ll have to visit me in Berkeley to see it.

More on the kymograph (this entry translated from a German Wikipedia entry) correctly attributes its invention to Thomas Young (the main English Wikipedia entry does not)

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kymograph&ei=KX0WTp2wG4SJsQKLqIGnAw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CB0Q7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dthomas%2Byoung%2Bkymograph%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DPGi%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Divnsob

More on Étienne-Jules Marey who pioneered in the physiology of systems that moved

: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne-Jules_Marey

http://americanhistory.si.edu/muybridge/htm/htm_sec1/sec1p3.htm

http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/marey.html

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/05/13/etienne-jules-marey/

There are also several short films re-creating Marey’s studies of animal motion on YouTube.

I didn’t mention it in class but he was also the inventor of ‘Marey’s capsule’, a device for transducing movements or air pressure into movements of the stylus of a kymograph.  Marey’s capsule figures prominently in late 19^th c. and early 20^th c. phonetic studies. 

http://chss.montclair.edu/psychology/museum/x_342.htm