Revealing “Lost Knowledge” of Chinese Phonology Through Anecdotes

Anecdotes

The well-known Arpanet was the first operational packet-switching network. 1 Almost completely unknown is what we claim was the second operational packet-switching network, the LFK Network—although, admittedly , it was a fairly minimal network. Work on the LFK Network began in fall 1970, and it was installed and accepted by fall 1972. It was used as part of a logistics system relating to the No...

The Knowledge of a Chinese Reader Concerning how Chinese Orthography Represents Phonology

A phonetically aware Chinese reader is able to infer the pronunciation of an unknown character from its constituent components; especially the one occupies the right half of the character. According to the statistical model of language learning, such a position strategy is really a bias representation of how Chinese characters representing phonology. This research tested the two positions by co...

Apocalypto - Revealing lost text with XMT

“Can brute-force high-contrast tomography techniques and image processing techniques retrieve textual content from damaged heritage materials?” The Dental Institute at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) is the leading centre for very high contrast X-Ray Microtomography imaging. The Apocalypto Project is our collaboration with the heritage community and experts in Computer Vision systems in ...

Introduction to Chinese Historical Phonology

Baxter, William H. III 1992. A Handbook of old Chinese phonology. Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 64. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Sagart Laurent 1999. The Roots of Old Chinese. Amsterdam: Benjamins Pulleyblank, E.G. 1962. ‘The consonantal system of Old Chinese’, Asia Major, 9: 58-114, 206-65 Pulleyblank, E.G. 1984. Middle Chinese: A Study in Historical Phonology, Vancouver: Universi...

Anecdotes