I have been doing some work on the Wikipedia article on Electropalatography. It's a subject I find interesting, so I was disappointed with the dreary little piece that had been written. I have added a couple of pictures and a new section on the use of EPG in phonetic research, something that was hardly mentioned before. If anyone knows of any recent research using EPG, I'd be glad to add it to the article.
I did a lot of work on the development of the Reading University EPG system in the mid-1970's, working with Bill Hardcastle and Wilf Jones. I wrote the first computer program for controlling the system, running on the PDP-8 computer in the Phonetics Lab. It was hard work, using punched paper tape for the successive versions of the program. The program contained almost 4000 lines of code (assembly language, which translated line by line into machine code), while at the start of the work the computer only had a 4K core memory.
I did a lot of work on the development of the Reading University EPG system in the mid-1970's, working with Bill Hardcastle and Wilf Jones. I wrote the first computer program for controlling the system, running on the PDP-8 computer in the Phonetics Lab. It was hard work, using punched paper tape for the successive versions of the program. The program contained almost 4000 lines of code (assembly language, which translated line by line into machine code), while at the start of the work the computer only had a 4K core memory.
This is a photo from 1977 of me wired up to the computer with EPG, lip electrodes and a photo-electric glottograph (involving inserting a light-sensitive cell through my nose into my throat, which I would not attempt today). The computer had by then been equipped with tape drives. Those were the days when computers really did have wheels going round, lights flashing and funny noises coming out.
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