Date/Time
Date(s) - 18/11/2015
2:10 pm - 3:00 pm
Location
Room 1.17 Dugald Stewart Building
Categories
As a joint session of the English Language Research Group, and Phonetics and Phonology Workshop at Edinburgh University, our team will be presenting a talk entitled: “How to capture medieval sound-to-spelling correspondences? Database design and technical solutions for FITS “.
The presentation will be given by Joanna Kopaczyk, Benjamin Molineaux and Vasilis Karaiskos, and will focus on the technical challenges of creating a historical corpus of spelling-to-sound mappings. To do so, we will describe the initial stages of the FITS project database, which deals with some of the earliest materials in the Scots language available through the Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots (1380-1500).
Some of the topics to be addressed are:
- Dealing with orthography as evidence for sound-systems
- Accounting for the temporal and spatial variation of sounds and spellings
- Tracing early Scots attestations to their sources in other Germanic languages
- Accounting for the development of the earliest attested Scots from its sources via a Corpus of Changes
