Wolfgang von Kempelen (full name Johann Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen de P�zm�nd, 1734-1804) was a Hungarian writer and polymath, best known for his creation of the (supposedly) chess-playing Mechanical Turk and the speaking machine. Bert Vaux is Reader in Phonology and Morphology at Cambridge University and a fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Rivka Hyland is a Rhodes Scholar and a graduate of Harvard and Oxford Universities. She lives and works in Istanbul. Amanda McHugh is reading for an undergraduate degree in Linguistics at King's College, Cambridge. Shushan Teager, an alumna of Wellesley College and MIT, is a retired Research Associate at the Boston University School of Medicine where she worked with her late husband, Professor Herbert Teager, Chief of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, on mapping air flow in the vocal tract during phonation. She lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.