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...
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...
This past Thursday, 9 July, our team met with members of its advisory panel to tackle a first set of data on the question of the Germanic source of Scots. We are extremely grateful to...
With the arrival of two new research assistants, Joanna Kopaczyk (previously at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) and Benjamin Molineaux (previously at Oxford), as well as a new doctoral candidate, Daisy Smith, the work on the...
The new AHRC-funded project, From Inglis to Scots: Mapping sounds to spellings (FITS) has acquired two new Research Assistants: Joanna Kopaczyk and Benjamin Molineaux. Joanna joins us from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where she has...
The team is very happy to welcome Daisy Smith as a doctoral student within its From Inglis to Scots project. Daisy was awarded a three-year AHRC-funded studentship to research the spellings and sounds of Older Scots...
In 2014 the Institute for Historical Dialectology (now the AMC) was awarded a grant of some £1M by the AHRC (grant ref AH/L004542/1) to fund a new, four-year project entitled From Inglis to Scots: Mapping Sounds to Spellings (‘FITS’)....
