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Eavesdropping on our past

This Northern Bridge Funded project (starting date: October 2021) is a collaborative PhD at Queen’s University Belfast in partnership with National Museums NI. Project: mapping the oral soundscape of Norther Irish English (NIE).

Tape

This Northern Bridge Funded project (starting date: October 2021) is a collaborative PhD at Queen’s University Belfast in partnership with National Museums NI. The research will an open access resource for discovering and digitally mapping the linguistic structures of NIE from National Museum NI’s newly digitised Tape Recorded Survey of Hiberno-English Speech (TRSHES). National Museums NI along with Professor Joan Rahilly of Queen’s University Belfast and Professor Karen Corrigan of Newcastle University will guide a programme of corpus creation, data encoding and analysis.