Special issue on studies in Late Modern English historical phonology using the Eighteenth-Century English Database (ECEP): introduction

Joan Beal, Ranjan Sen, Nuria Yanez Bouza, Christine Wallis

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Abstract

Since Charles Jones referred to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as the ‘Cinderellas of English historical linguistic study’ (1989: 279), there has been a great deal of progress in research on this period, but, as Beal (2012: 22) points out, much of this has been in the fields of syntax, morphology, lexis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and the normative tradition. Beal argues that the availability of corpora of Late Modern English texts has greatly facilitated research in these areas, but, since creating phonological corpora for periods antedating the invention of sound recording is a challenging proposition, the historical phonology of Late Modern English has benefited much less from the corpus revolution. To redress this imbalance, the editors of this issue, with technical support from the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, created the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database (ECEP), which is freely available at www.dhi.ac.uk/projects/ecep/
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)471-474
JournalEnglish Language and Linguistics
Volume22
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 25 Jun 2020

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