From Stomatoscopy to BEA: The History of Hungarian Experimental Phonetics
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Hungarian phoneticians were often among the first to do high quality research of certain types or to adopt the most advanced methods of their time. The first objective method in the investigation of the articulation of speech sounds, called „stomatoscopy‟, was used about ten years earlier than Rousselot‟s famous work was first published. More than a hundred years ago various tools were developed for the measurement of the air flow, voicing, articulation, lip movements, and the amount of energy necessary for articulation. At the beginning of the 20th century, research on the artificial recognition of vowels started. These early methods and their results are discussed here.
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