‘The Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database’ funded!
Prof Joan Beal (PI), Dr Nuria Yáñez-Bouza (University of Manchester, Consultant) and I (CI) have been granted a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant from 1 June 2014 for 9 months to construct an Eighteenth-Century English Phonology database.
Watch this space for more details (and see Beal & Sen 2014 for a discussion of the value of such a resource together with a pilot study)!