Events

At the 17th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) in Hong Kong 2011 Jürgen Trouvain and Rüdiger Hoffmann organised a double special session on "The History of Phonetics" with the following papers:

• John Ohala (University of California, Berkeley):
  Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein: Pioneer in speech synthesis
• Jürgen Trouvain (Saarland University, Saarbrücken) and Fabian Brackhane (Institut für deutsche Sprache (IDS), Mannheim):
  Wolfgang von Kempelen’s ’Speaking Machine’ as an instrument for demonstration and research
• Hartmut Pfitzinger and Oliver Niebuhr (both Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel):
  Historical development of phonetic vowel systems - the last 400 years
• Mária Gósy (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest):
  From stomatoscopy to BEA: the history of Hungarian experimental phonetics
• Rüdiger Hoffmann, Dieter Mehnert and Rolf Dietzel (all University of Technology, Dresden):
  Measuring the accuracy of historic phonetic instruments
• Michael Ashby (University College London):
  Film from a phonetics laboratory of the 1920s