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FITS Team at the 10th ICOME

Joanna Kopaczyk — Wed, 24 May 2017 16:12:21 +0000

The FITS Team will talk about “Reconstructing spelling systems through grapho-phonological parsing” at the 10th International Conference on Medieval English (ICOME) at the University of Stavanger (29.05-2.06.2017). Using the grapho-phonologically parsed corpus of sound-spelling correspondences in Older Scots, we will show how the Older Scots consonantal use of differed from contemporaneous practice south of the border. We will concentrate on spelling correlates of voiced and voiceless dental fricatives, paying special attention to positional preferences, as well as functional, etymological and morphological contexts. It’ll be an exciting opportunity to show our Medusa tool (tentatively referred to as such) at work!

New FRLSU volume out: FITS team on reflexes of Germanic *a in Scots

Joanna Kopaczyk — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 11:07:01 +0000

Fresh off the press – “The emergence of Scots: Clues from Germanic *a reflexes” by Rhona Alcorn, Benjamin Molineaux, Joanna Kopaczyk, Vasilios Karaiskos, Bettelou Los and Warren Maguire. The paper forms part of the 5th online FRSLU volume Before the storm: Papers from the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster triennial meeting, Ayr 2015, edited by Janet Cruickshank and Robert McColl Millar at the University of Aberdeen.

The volume also features another chapter by our FITS team member, Warren Maguire, on Epenthesis in liquid+consonant clusters in Scots.

FITS Team at the AMC Symposium

Joanna Kopaczyk — Tue, 24 May 2016 15:21:56 +0000

The AMC Symposium, organised by the members of the FITS team and the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics, gives us a wonderful opportunity to share our research with fellow historical linguists. FITS Team members are involved in the following presentations:

Rhona Alcorn and Rob Truswell: A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English
Warren Maguire: The phonology of early nineteenth-century Tyneside English as revealed in Thomas Wilson’s The Pitman’s Pay
Benjamin Molineaux and Joanna Kopaczyk: L-vocalisation in fifteenth-century Scots: The earliest spread of a ‘characteristic’ Scots feature
Daisy Smith: The predictability of {-S} abbreviation in Older Scots manuscripts according to stem-final littera

The abstracts can be found in the Book of Abstracts, and for the full programme, see this link.

FITS Team to present at ICEHL19 in Essen

Joanna Kopaczyk — Tue, 24 May 2016 15:07:57 +0000

This summer, the FITS team will present the fruits of their research at the International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, to take place at the University of Duisburg-Essen on 22-26 August 2016.

Benjamin Molineaux and Rhona Alcorn will represent the team, giving a paper on Grapho-phonological parsing of C15 Scots: A reassessment of the [v]~[f] alternation.

You can read the abstract for the talk here.