{"product_id":"the-mechanism-of-speech-hardcover","title":"The Mechanism of Speech - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWolfgang Von Kempelen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBert Vaux\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRivka Hyland\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late eighteenth century Hungarian inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen, inspired by the success of his Mechanical Turk, which purported to be an automaton capable of playing chess, set out to create a machine that could actually speak, simulating the organs of speech by means of a series of bellows, pipes, and valves. His narrative of his efforts, together with a typically Enlightenment-era exposition of properties of human languages, appeared in slightly different German and French versions in 1791. The present work represents the first English-language translation of the French edition, augmented with linguistic and bibliographical information lacking in the original.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWolfgang von Kempelen (full name Johann Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen de Pázmánd, 1734-1804) was a Hungarian writer and polymath, best known for his creation of the (supposedly) chess-playing Mechanical Turk and the speaking machine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bert Vaux is Reader in Phonology and Morphology at Cambridge University and a fellow of King's College, Cambridge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rivka Hyland is a Rhodes Scholar and a graduate of Harvard and Oxford Universities. She lives and works in Istanbul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Amanda McHugh is reading for an undergraduate degree in Linguistics at King's College, Cambridge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Shushan Teager, an alumna of Wellesley College and MIT, is a retired Research Associate at the Boston University School of Medicine where she worked with her late husband, Professor Herbert Teager, Chief of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, on mapping air flow in the vocal tract during phonation. She lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 218\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 14, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45644763594854,"sku":"9781725261853","price":54.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/RjOrOP5Y3k9781725261853.webp?v=1779375038","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-mechanism-of-speech-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}