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Mackert, Michael 1999 Horatio Hale's grammatical sketch of Tsihaili-Selish History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 1: Traditions in Linguistics Worldwide, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 139–146 | Chapter

Mackert, Michael 1999 And along came Boas: Continuity and Revolution in Americanist Anthropology. By Regna Darnell Historiographia Linguistica 26:3, pp. 429–435 | Review

Mackert, Michael 1999 Franz Boas’ early northwest coast alphabet Historiographia Linguistica 26:3, pp. 273–294 | Article

During his work for the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS), Franz Boas (1858–1942) designed a phonetic alphabet for the Native American languages of British Columbia in his correspondence with Horatio Hale (1817–1896), who had been entrusted with the supervision of Boas’… read more

Mackert, Michael 1995 The Hale–Boas Debate on the Origin and Classification of Languages History of Linguistics 1993: Papers from the Sixth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS VI), Washington DC, 9–14 August 1993, Jankowsky, Kurt R. (ed.), pp. 291–298 | Article

Mackert, Michael 1994 Franz Boas’ Theory of Phonetics Historiographia Linguistica 21:3, pp. 351–384 | Article

Franz Boas’ (1858–1942) Statements on phonetics can only be appreciated adequately if they are read against the background of 19th-century experimental psychology, acoustics, physiology, and psychophysics. This paper demonstrates that Boas adhered to a theory of phonetics which included a… read more

Mackert, Michael 1993 The roots of franz boas’ view of linguistic categories as a window to the human mind Historiographia Linguistica 20:2/3, pp. 331–351 | Article

Historiographers of linguistics have frequently pointed out the presence of the Humboldtian term ‘inner form’ in Franz Boas’ (1858–1942) work on linguistic categorization and have suggested a link to Heymann Steinthal’s (1823–1899) Völkerpsychologie and psycholinguistics. This essay demonstrates,… read more

Mackert, Michael 1992 The Role of Acoustics and Apperception in Franz Boas’ Theory of Phonetics Diversions of Galway: Papers on the history of linguistics from ICHoLS V, Ahlqvist, Anders (ed.), pp. 251–260 | Article