Margaret Masterman
Margaret Masterman ( born May 4, 1910 in London, † April 1, 1986 in Cambridge ) was a British philosopher and linguist.
Margaret Masterman was the daughter of the politician Charles FG Masterman and his wife Lucy Blanche Lyttelton, also involved political and poet. She studied modern and medieval languages and Ethics ( Moral Science ) at Newnham College ( later she also learned Chinese).
In 1932 she married the philosopher Richard Bevan Braithwaite, with whom she had a son and a daughter.
Masterman was 1933/34, one of the selected students who were allowed to Ludwig Wittgenstein 's Lecture ( Blue Book ) write in Cambridge ( the others were the close collaborator and friend of Wittgenstein Francis Skinner, the mathematician Reuben Goodstein, the philosopher Alice Ambrose and the mathematician HSM Coxeter ).
She was also a pioneer in computational linguistics and founded in 1956 the Cambridge Language Research Unit ( ClRu ). Although not officially part of the University, where important research in computational linguistics and machine translation in the UK has been made. They financed by research funds from the U.S., the UK and the EU. However, the center was suffering at the time from a lack of computer capacity. Masterman therefore undertook a new attempt to revive the Institute, which was abandoned after her death with the advent of personal computers in 1980.
Your view of language was very different from the oriented syntax grammars school of Noam Chomsky. Rather, they emphasized the importance of breath groups ( breath groups), redundancy in the language and rhythm of the language and its starting point was the semantic analysis. As a model it was doing the Chinese.
She was one of the founders of Lucy Cavendish College for Women in Cambridge and from 1965 to 1975 as Vice President. She herself was with Lucy Cavendish (1841-1925, née Lyttleton ) used a pioneer in women's education.
As a philosopher, she played an important role in the emergence of the paradigm - term by Thomas S. Kuhn, whom she criticized in an article in 1965.
They also dealt with writing ( she wrote plays and novels ) and had wide-ranging interests ( such as Gregorian chant ).