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Title: | The global periphery: Armando de Lacerda and the Coimbra Experimental Phonetics Laboratory (1936-1979) |
Authors: | Lopes, Quintino |
Keywords: | Fonética Experimental Armando de Lacerda |
Issue Date: | 2023 |
Publisher: | The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Center for History of Science |
Citation: | LOPES, Quintino (2023), The global periphery: Armando de Lacerda and the Coimbra Experimental Phonetics Laboratory (1936-1979), Stockholm: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Center for History of Science. |
Abstract: | The Experimental Phonetics Laboratory of the
University of Coimbra Faculty of Letters was regarded
in the mid-twentieth century as the most advanced
laboratory of its kind in Europe. Scientists from all
over the world (the universities of Harvard, Paris, Cambridge,
Bonn, Texas, Toulouse, Milan, Salvador da Bahia, Madrid, Accra,
Uppsala, Oslo, Rio de Janeiro, Barcelona and Edinburgh) worked
at the laboratory carrying out research and receiving training in
the use of the instruments and research methods developed by its
head, Armando de Lacerda. How is it that in Portugal, a country
regarded as peripheral and scientifically backward, there existed
such excellent research facilities? Who were these scientists? What
impact did the work of the laboratory have on science and society?
How did Armando de Lacerda’s techniques and instruments
develop from 1931? This book addresses these and other issues.
The examination of the operations of the laboratory and its profile
worldwide, leading to the identification of historical sources in
Europe, the USA, South America and Australia, means that this
study is purely exploratory in nature. The conviction of a disciple
of Armando de Lacerda’s at Harvard that he was a pioneer in the
field of the speech synthesis and recognition technology is just one
of the novel suggestions made in this book. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10174/35181 |
Type: | book |
Appears in Collections: | IHC - Publicações - Livros
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