Tuesday, October 16, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: October 16



October 16

1913: George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, with a phonetician as one of the leading characters, is premiered in Vienna. Only the year later does it hit a London stage.

1936: A 14-year old Michael Ventris gets to hear about Linear B for the first time.

1997: Release of Steven Pinker’s How the Mind Works.

2000: The band Jega (actually a pseudonym for Dylan Nathan), which plays instrumental electronic music, releases the album Geometry, which is remarkable for containing a song called "Syntax Tree."

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Jega's "Syntax Tree":

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