Nathan W. Hill -- The abstractions adequate to Chinese Historical Phonology
Channel: Nathan Hill
Date: 2022-10-20

This lecture was given by Nathan W. Hill (Trinity College Dublin) at the workshop 'The changing pronunciation of Chinese during the Han dynasty: applying graph theory to poetic rhymes,' held at Trinity College Dublin, Friday 14 October 2020.

00:00 Philosophy of Science in Chinese Historical phonology 
02:20 Marxist philosophy of science
05:12 A look at mathematics
11:58 Hunting for abstractions
12:53 A look at the decipherment of Egyptian
18:33 Alphabetization and transitivization
21:11 Alphabetizers and transitivizers in Chinese
26:49 Note on graph theory
28:43 Questions and discussion