Acknowledgements

Documentation

The corpus

People

Publications

Sponsors

References

Links

Appendices

Edited Books

• Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P. and Moisl, H.L. (eds.) (2007) Creating and Digitising Language Corpora, Vol. 1: Synchronic Databases. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P. and Moisl, H.L. (eds.) (2007) Creating and Digitising Language Corpora, Vol. 2: Diachronic Databases. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals, chapters in edited works, working papers, electronic publications

• Allen, W.H., Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Maguire, W. and Moisl, H.L. (2007) ‘A Linguistic ‘Time-Capsule’: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English’ in Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P. and Moisl, H.L. (eds.) Creating and Digitising Language Corpora, Vol. 2: Diachronic Databases. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 16-48. [Preprint]

• Beal, J.C. and Corrigan, K.P. (2000) ‘Comparing the Present with the Past to Predict the Future for Tyneside British English’, Newcastle and Durham Working Papers in Linguistics, 6: 13-30.

• Beal, J.C. and Corrigan, K.P. (2002) ‘Relativisation in Tyneside and Northumbria’, in Poussa, P. (ed.) Dialect Contact and History on the North Sea Littoral, 125-134. Lincom Europa.

• Beal, J.C. (2004) ‘Geordie Nation: Language and Identity in the North-East of England’‚ Lore and Language, 17: 33-48.

• Beal, J.C. (2004) ‘The Phonology of English Dialects in the North of England’ in Kortmann, B. (ed.) A Handbook of Varieties of English, Volume I. Berlin: Mouton, 113-133.

• Beal, J.C. (2004) ‘The Morphology and Syntax of English Dialects in the North of England’ in Kortmann, B. (ed.) A Handbook of Varieties of English, Volume II.  Berlin: Mouton, 114-141.

• Beal, J.C. and Corrigan, Karen P. (2005) ‘A tale of two dialects: Relativization in Newcastle and Sheffield’, in Filppula, M., Klemola, J., Palander, M. and Penttilä, E. (eds.) Dialects Across Borders: Selected Papers from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI), Joensuu, August 2002. CILT, 273. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 211-229.

• Beal, J.C. and Corrigan, K.P. (2005) ‘”No, Nay, Never”, Negation in Tyneside English’, in Iyeiri, Y. (ed.) Aspects of English Negation, 139-156. Tokyo: Yushodo University Press and Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• Beal, J.C. & Smith, N. (2006) ‘Lessons learned from tagging and transcribing the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English’. AHRC ICT Methods Workshop on Historical Text Mining, Lancaster University, 20th-21st July 2006.

• Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Rayson, P. and Smith, N. (2006) ‘Writing the Vernacular: Transcribing and Tagging the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (NECTE)’, ICAME 27, Workshop on Annotation, Helsinki, 24th May 2006. [Electronic Publication to appear]

• Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P. and Moisl, H.L. (2007) ‘Taming Digital Voices and Texts: Models and Methods for Handling Unconventional Synchronic Corpora’ in Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P. and Moisl, H. (eds.) Creating and Digitising Language Corpora, Vol. 1: Synchronic Databases. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-16.

• Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P. and Moisl, H.L. (2007) ‘Taming Digital Voices and Texts: Models and Methods for Handling Unconventional Synchronic Corpora’ in Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P. and Moisl, H. (eds.) Creating and Digitising Language Corpora, Vol. 1: Synchronic Databases. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-15.

• Beal, J.C. and Corrigan, K.P. (2007) ‘”Time and Tyne”: A corpus based study of variation and change in relativization strategies in Tyneside English’, in Elspass, S. (ed.) Language History from Below-Linguistic Variation in the Germanic Languages from 1700–2000: Proceedings. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1-16.

• Kretzchmar, W., Anderson, J., Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Opas-Hänninen, L. and Plichta, B. (2006) ‘Collaboration on corpora for regional and social analysis’ Journal of English Linguistics, 34: 172-205.

• Moisl, H. and Beal, J.C. (2001) ‘Corpus Analysis and Results: Visualization Using Self-Organizing Maps’, Corpus Linguistics 2001, Lancaster University, 386-391. Electronic Publication.

• Moisl, H, Jones, V (2005) Cluster analysis of the Newcastle electronic corpus of Tyneside English: a comparison of methods. Centre for Telematics and Information Technology [CTIT] ; TR 2005/65) {A-53328} University of Twente.

• Moisl, H, Jones V., (2005) 'Cluster analysis of the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: a comparison of methods', Literary and Linguistic Computing 20, 125-46. [Online journal version] [Preprint]

• Moisl, H., Maguire W, Allen W., (2006) 'Phonetic variation in Tyneside: exploratory multivariate analysis of the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English'. In: F. Hinskens (ed.) Language Variation. European Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 127-141. [Preprint]

• Moisl, H. (2007) Data nonlinearity in exploratory multivariate analysis of language corpora, Computing and Historical Phonology. Proceedings of the Ninth Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology, June 28 2007, ed. J. Nerbonne, M.Ellison, G.Kondrak, Association for Computational Linguistics, 93-100. [Online publication]

• Moisl, H., Maguire, W. (2008) 'Identifying the Main Determinants of Phonetic Variation in the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English', Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 15 (2008), to appear. [Preprint]

Presentations at refereed conferences

(i)    Poster and Web-Based Presentations

• Allen, W., Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Moisl, H. and Rowe, C. (2002) ‘A Linguistic “Time-Capsule”: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English’ Presented at The Eleventh International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI), University of Joensuu, August 2002.

• Allen, W., Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Moisl, H. and Rowe, C. (2003) ‘A Linguistic “Time-Capsule”: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English’ Presented at 2nd International Conference on Language Variation and Change in Europe, University of Uppsala, June 2003.

• Allen, W., Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Moisl, H. and Rowe, C. (2003) ‘A Linguistic “Time-Capsule”: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English’ Presented at NWAVE, University of Philadelphia, October 2003.

• Allen, W., Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Moisl, H. and Rowe, C. (2004) ‘A Linguistic “Time-Capsule”: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English’ Presented at ALLC/ACH, University of Gothenburg, June 2004.

• Allen, W., Beal, J.C. and Corrigan, K.P. (2004) ‘The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: An On-Line Sociolinguistic Resource’, Presented at NWAVE 33, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Sept.-Oct. 2004.

• Beal, J.C. and Corrigan, K.P. (2000) ‘A “Time-Capsule” for Future Generations: The Newcastle-Poitiers Corpus of Tyneside English’, Presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium, University of the West of England, Bristol April 2000.

• Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P. and Moisl, H. (2001) ‘The Newcastle-Poitiers Corpus of Tyneside English’, Presented at UKLVC, University of York, July 2001.

• Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P. and Moisl, H. (2001) ‘A Linguistic “Time-Capsule”: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English’, Presented at New Ways of Analysing Variation, University of North Carolina, October 2001.

(ii)   Paper Presentations

• Allen, W., Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Moisl, H. and Rowe, C. (2003) ‘The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: Ethical and Legal Consequences of Linguistic Archaeology’, Paper presented at the Arts and Humanities Data Service Copyright and Digitisation Workshop, London, 21st January 2003.

• Allen, W., Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P. and Maguire, W. (2004) ‘‘Paddy’ and ‘Jock’ Meet ‘Geordie’: A Prolegomenon to Investigating the Reflexes of Nineteenth Century Linguistic Contact in the North East’, Paper presented at The Influence of the Languages of Ireland and Scotland on Linguistic Varieties in Northern England Colloquium, University of Aberdeen, 28th June 2004.

• Allen, W., Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Moisl, H. and Rowe, C. (2004) ‘A Linguistic “Time-Capsule’’: Models and Methods’, Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 15, University of Newcastle, April 2004.

• Allen, W., Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Moisl, H. and Rowe, C. (2004) ‘The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: A Witness to the History of Computing’, Paper presented at Digital Resources in the Humanities, University of Newcastle, September 2004.

• Allen, W., Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Maguire, M. and Moisl, H. (2005) ‘Preserving the Intangible Heritage of Tyneside: the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English’, Paper presented at Cultural Landscapes in the 21st Century, Forum UNESCO, University and Heritage 10th International Seminar: An Inter-Congress of the World Archaeological Congress, Newcastle University, April 2005.

• Allen, W., Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Maguire, M. and Moisl, H. (2005) ‘The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: A New Tool for Analysing English Linguistic Structure’, Paper presented at the First International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of Edinburgh, June 23rd-26th 2005.

• Allen, W., Maguire, M. and Moisl, H. (2005) ‘Phonetic Variation in Tyneside’, Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam, June 2005.

• Beal, J.C. and Corrigan, K.P. (1999) ‘Comparing the Present with the Past to Predict the Future for Tyneside English’, Paper presented at Methods in Dialectology X, St. John's, Newfoundland, University of Newfoundland, August 1999.

• Beal, J.C. and Corrigan, K.P. (2000) ‘A Dynamic Re-modelling of Linguistic Variation: The Social Trajectories of Syntactic Change Amongst Young Tynesiders, 1969-1994’, Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium, University of the West of England, Bristol, April 2000.

• Beal, J.C. and Corrigan, K.P. (2000) ‘The Newcastle-Poitiers Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English’, Paper presented at 11th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, University of Santiago de Compostella, August 2000.

• Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Fryd, M. and Moisl, H. (2000) ‘The Newcastle-Poitiers Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English’, Paper presented at La Linguistique et la Langue Anglaise, Université de Toulouse-le Mirail, July 2000.

• Beal, J.C. and Corrigan, K.P. (2000) ‘New Ways of Capturing the “Kodak moment”: Real-time vs. Apparent Time Analyses of Syntactic Variation in Tyneside English, 1969-1994’ Paper presented at 2nd Variation is Everywhere Workshop, University of Essex, September 2000.

• Beal, J.C. (2001) ‘The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: Dictionary Applications’, Paper presented at the Oxford English Dictionary Forum, University of Oxford, June 14th 2001.

• Beal, J.C. and Corrigan, K.P. (2001) ‘Relatives in Tyneside and Northumbrian English’, Paper presented at Dialect Contact and History on the North Sea Littoral, University of Umeå, May 2001.

• Beal, J.C. and Corrigan, K.P. (2002) ‘A Tale of Two Dialects: Relativisation in Newcastle and Sheffield’, Paper presented at Methods in Dialectology, XI, University of Joensuu, August 2002.

• Beal, J.C. and Corrigan, K.P. (2003) ‘Another “Northern Cities” Shift?: Adverbial Usage in Tyneside and Sheffield’, Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, University of Uppsala, June 2003.

• Beal, J.C. and Corrigan, K.P. (2004) ‘The Impact of Nineteenth Century Celtic English Migrations on Contemporary Northern Englishes: Tyneside and Sheffield Compared.’ Paper presented at Celtic Englishes IV, University of Potsdam, September 2004.

• Beal, J.C. (2005) ‘The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English’, Paper presented to a postgraduate seminar on linguistic corpora, University of Manchester, April 2005.

• Beal, J.C. and Corrigan, K.P. (2005) ‘Time and Tyne’: A Corpus-Based Study of Variation and Change in Relativization Stategies in Tyneside English’, Paper presented at Language History from Below – Linguistic Variation in the Germanic Languages from 1700 – 2000, University of Bristol, April 2005.

• Beal, J.C. and Corrigan, K.P. (2005) ‘”No, Nay, Never”: Negation in Tyneside English’, Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam, June 2005.

• Beal, J.C. and Corrigan, K.P. (2005) ‘ ‘Paddy’ and ‘Jock’ Meet ‘Geordie’: Investigating the Reflexes of Nineteenth Century Linguistic Contact in the North East of England’, Paper presented to the Celtic Folk Studies Conference, Cardiff University, July 2005.

• Beal, J.C., Corrigan. K.P. and Maguire, W. (2005) ‘Gateshead Revisited: Inferring Linguistic Variation and Change from the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English.’ Paper presented at Methods in Dialectology, XII, University of Moncton, August 2005.

• Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Leech, G., Miller, N. & Rayson, P. (2006) ‘Writing the Vernacular: Transcribing and Tagging the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (NECTE).’ Paper presented to ICAME 27, University of Helsinki, May 24th-27th, 2006.

• Beal, J.C. (2007) ‘'To the rescue! Creating corpora of spoken legacy materials'. Plenary presentation to ICAME 28, Stratford-upon-Avon, 23rd-26th May 2007. http://rdues.uce.ac.uk/icame/prog.html

• Kretzschmar, W.A. Jr., Anderson, J., Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Opas-Hänninen, L. and Plichta, B. (2005) ‘Collaboration on Corpora for Regional and Social Analysis’, Paper presented at AACL 6/ICAME 26, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 12th-15th, 2005.

• Maguire, W. (2004) ‘The reversal of the NURSE/NORTH merger in Tyneside English: Data from the Tyneside Linguistic Survey’ Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 15, University of Newcastle, April 2004.

• Moisl, H. and Beal, J.C. (2001) ‘Corpus Analysis and Results: Visualization Using Self-Organizing Maps’ Paper presented at Corpus Linguistics 2001, University of Lancaster, Mar.-Apr. 2001.

• Moisl, H., Corrigan, K.P., Allen, W. and Rowe, C. (2002) ‘Topographic Mapping as a Tool for Analysis and Results Visualization of Dialectal Data’, Paper presented at Methods in Dialectology, XI, University of Joensuu, August 2002.

• Moisl, H., Corrigan, K.P., Allen, W. and Rowe, C. (2002) ‘The Analysis and Visualization of a Socio-Cultural Resource: Topographic Mapping of the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English’, Paper presented at Digital Resources in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, September 2002.

• Moisl, H., Jones, V. (2003) ‘Cluster analysis of the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: a comparison of methods’, Web X: A Decade of the World Wide Web, Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Athens, Georgia

• Moisl, H., Maguire, W. (2005) Identifying the main determinants of phonetic variation in the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English, Fifth Meeting of the UK Language Variation and Change Conference (UKLVC 5). University of Aberdeen, 12-14, September 2005.

• Moisl, H. and Corrigan, K.P. (2006) ‘Analyzing the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English phonetic transcriptions: potential, problems, and results’. ESF Exploratory Workshop on Corpora in Phonological Research, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, 15th-17th June 2006.

• Moisl, H. (2006) Nonlinear exploratory multivariate analysis of historical text corpora, Institute for Historical Dialectology, University of Edinburgh

• Moisl, H. (2007) Data nonlinearity in exploratory multivariate analysis of language corpora, Computing and Historical Phonology, 9th Meeting of ACL Special Interest Group for Computational Morphology and Phonology. Prague

• Moisl, H. (2007) Using electronic corpora to study language variation: the problem of data sparsity, Fourth International Conference on Language variation in Europe, University of Cyprus

• Moisl, H. (2007) Using electronic corpora in historical dialectology research: the problem of document length variation, 2nd International Conference on English Historical Dialectology, Bergamo, Italy.

(iii)  Panels/Workshops:

• UKLVC, University of Sheffield, September 2003.

 Panel 1:

Organisers: *Allen, W., †Beal, J.C., *Corrigan, K.P., *Moisl, H. and *Rowe, C., *Newcastle University & †Sheffield University. 

Title: ‘Deriving Standards for the Creation of Electronic Vernacular Corpora: Ethical, Legal and Preservation Issues’.

Contributors and Titles:

†Beal, J.C. and *Rowe, C., Universities of †Sheffield and *Newcastle: ‘Introduction’.

Berglund, Y., Oxford Text Archive: ‘Preserving Linguistic Data - Known Pitfalls and Suggested Solutions’.

Sangster, C., British Broadcasting Corporation: ‘Ethical Issues in Collecting and Using Speech for Linguistic Research’.

Upton, C., University of Leeds: ‘Ethical considerations in the Survey of Regional English’.

 Panel 2:

 Organisers: *Allen, W., †Beal, J.C., *Corrigan, K.P., *Moisl, H. and *Rowe, C., *Newcastle University & †Sheffield University. 

 Title: ‘Deriving Standards for the Creation of Electronic Vernacular Corpora: Tagging and Transcription Issues’.

Contributors and Titles:

Allen, W., Newcastle University: ‘Introduction’.

Foulkes, P., York University: ‘Standards in Phonetic/Phonological Transcription’.

Lawrence, H., York University:  ‘Transcription Technicalities’.

• Sociolinguistics Symposium 15, University of Newcastle, April 2004.

 Organisers: †Beal, J.C., *Corrigan, K.P. and *Moisl, H., *Newcastle University & †Sheffield University.

Title: ’Models and Methods in the Handling of Unconventional Digital Corpora’.

 Contributors and Titles:

Corrigan, K.P., University of Newcastle: ‘Introduction’.

†Allen, W., *Beal, J.C., †Corrigan, K.P., †Moisl, H. and †Rowe, C. Universities of †Sheffield and *Newcastle: ‘A Linguistic ‘Time-Capsule’: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English’.

Anderson, J., Beavan, D., Corbett, J. and Kay, C., University of Glasgow:  ‘The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech’.

Anderwald, L. and Wagner, S., University of Freiburg: ‘The Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED) – Applying Corpus-Linguistic Research Tools to the Analysis of Dialect Data’.

Barbiers, S., Cornips, L. and Kunst, J-P., Meertens Institute, Amsterdam: ‘The Syntactic Atlas of Dutch Dialects (SAND): A Corpus of Elicited Speech as an On-line Dynamic Atlas’.

†Denison, D. and *van Bergen, L., Universities of †Manchester and *Edinburgh: ‘A Corpus of Late Eighteenth Century Prose’.

Dray, S. and Sebba, M., University of Lancaster: ‘Developing and Using a Corpus of Written Creole’.

Jones, F.R. and Standen, N., University of Newcastle: ‘Uncovering Alternatives: 0n-line Comparative Translation of Interlinked Chinese Historical Texts’.

†Kallen, J. and *Kirk, J., †Trinity College, Dublin and *Queen’s University, Belfast: ‘International Corpus of English-Ireland’.

Meurman-Solin, A., University of Helsinki: ‘Manuscript-Based Corpora as Tools in Linguistic Archaeology’.

Nevalainen, T. and Raumolin-Brunberg, H., University of Helsinki: ‘Historical Sociolinguistics: The Corpus of Early English Correspondence’.

Taylor, A., University of York: ‘The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose’.

Tagliamonte, S., University of Toronto: ‘Representing Real Language: Consistency, Trade-Offs and Thinking Ahead!’

 

• New Ways of Analyzing Variation 33, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Sept.-Oct. 2004.

 Organisers: †Beal, J.C. and *Corrigan, K.P. *Newcastle University & †Sheffield University.

 Title: ‘Inferring Syntactic Variation and Change from Electronic Corpora’.

 Contributors and Titles:

Beal, J.C. and Corrigan, K.P., University of Newcastle: ‘Introduction’.

Beal, J.C. and Corrigan, K.P., University of Newcastle: ‘The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: Syntactic Variation in Real Time’.

Cheshire, J., Queen Mary, University of London: ‘Syntactic Variation and Spoken Discourse’.

Cornips, L., Meertens Institute, Amsterdam: ‘The Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects: Methodology, Fieldwork and Elicitation Procedures’.

Sand, A., University of Freiburg: ‘Angloversals? Using the ICE Corpora as Evidence for the Effects of Language Contact on the Morpho-Syntax of English’.

Wagner, S. and Anderwald, L. ‘The Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED) – Applying Corpus-Linguistic Research Tools for the Analysis of Dialect Data’.

• UKLVC, University of Aberdeen, September 2005.

Organisers: *Allen, W., †Beal, J.C., *Corrigan, K.P., *Maguire, W. and *Moisl, H., *Newcastle University & †Sheffield University.

Title: ‘Tyneside English: Live and Interactive’.

• New Ways of Analyzing Variation 34, New York University, October 2005.

Organiser: Corrigan, K.P.

Title: ‘“Emigrants and Exiles” in the Old and New World: The Sociolinguistic Impact of Irish Migration and Settlement’.

Contributors and Titles:

Corrigan, K.P., Newcastle University: ‘Introduction’.

†Beal, J.C. & *Corrigan, K.P., †Sheffield University, UK & *Newcastle University, UK: ‘Migration to the Old World: The Sociolinguistic Impact of Irish Famine settlements in Newcastle and Sheffield’.

Clarke, S., Memorial University, St. John's, NL, Canada: ‘The Irish-English Perfect in an Overseas Enclave Variety.’

†Fennell, B. & *Llamas, C., University of Aberdeen, UK:  ‘Attributing Linguistic Features in Middlesbrough English to Irish Immigration’.

Montgomery, M., University of South Carolina Columbia, SC.: ‘Out of Ireland: Second-Person-Plural Pronouns in American English’.

Wassink, A., University of Washington, US: ‘Finding a Network in Seattle: Variability in Immigrant Phonology and the Ubiquity of Weak Network Ties’.

 

•  ICEHL14, Bergamo University, August 2006.

Organisers: †Beal, J.C. and *Corrigan, K.P. *Newcastle University & †Sheffield University.

Title: “Dialects of the Diaspora: The influence of 19^th-century Irish Migration and Settlement on urban dialects of British English”

Contributors and Titles:

†Beal, J.C. & *Corrigan, K.P., †Sheffield University, UK & *Newcastle University, UK: ‘ ‘Paddy’ Meets ‘Geordie’: A Prolegomenon to Investigating the Reflexes of Nineteenth Century Linguistic Contact in the North East.’

†Llamas, C. & *Jones, M., †University of Aberdeen, UK & *Cambridge University, UK: ‘Migration and Variation: Middlesbrough and Dublin Compared’.

Beal, J.C., Sheffield University, UK: ‘The Irish in Sheffield, The Industrial ‘Village’.’

Seminar presentations

• Allen, W., Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Maguire, W., Moisl, H. and Rowe, C. (2001-2004) presented a series of 7 informal ‘show-and-tell’ talks entitled ‘The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English’ to: (i) history and museum studies researchers (including members of the AHRB Centre for North-East England History); (ii) digital media specialists; (iii) lexicographers; (iv) educationalists; (v) linguists; (vi) Members of the following gatekeeper groups: Northumbrian Language Society, Durham Dialect Society and Byker Community Education Project; (vii) staff, undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Department of English, Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg who were on a study visit to Newcastle and Sheffield.

• Beal, J.C. (2002) ‘The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: A Repository of Local Dialect’, Presented at the Roland Bibby Memorial Lecture, Morpeth Northumberland, October 2002.

• Corrigan, K.P. (2003) ‘Analysing Spoken and Written Electronic Corpora’, Workshop offered at NWCL Postgraduate Research Training Conference, April 2003.

• Beal, J.C. (2005) ‘Dialectology’, Workshop offered to an A2 English Language Study Day, Wyke College, January 2005.

• Beal, J.C. (2005) ‘The Newcastle Corpus of Tyneside English’, Presented at a Postgraduate Seminar on Linguistic Corpora, University of Manchester, March 2005.

• Beal, J.C. (2005) ‘Dialects of North East England’, Presented at the Annual General Meeting of Mensa, Newcastle, July 16th 2005.

• Beal, J.C. (2005) ‘Gateshead Revisited: the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English’, Presented to Research Seminar in Linguistics, University of York, September, 2005.

• Beal, J.C. (2006) ‘The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: a Linguistic Time Capsule’, Presented to the Research Seminar in Linguistics, Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada, September 2006.

• Corrigan, K.P. (2006) ‘The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English’, Presented at Cullercoats Regent Club, May 2006.

• Corrigan, K.P. & Moisl, H. (2006) ‘The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English.’ Paper presented to the SCOTS Symposium on Linguistic Variation and Electronic Projects, Glasgow University, April 28th-29th 2006.

• Rayson, P. (2006) AHRC ICT Methods Network Newsletter, Issue 3, ‘Report on ‘Historical Text Mining’ workshop, Lancaster University 20-21 July 2006 Lancaster University. [http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/redist/pdf/newsletter_3.pdf]

• Corrigan, K.P. and Wishart, T. (2007) ‘Speaking in Tongues: Voice and Dialect Heritage in the North East’, A Public Lecture Presented at Newcastle University as an input to the Newcastle Science festival, March 14th 2007.

Public Lectures:

• Beal, J.C. (2002) ‘The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: A Repository of Local Dialect’, Presented at the Roland Bibby Memorial Lecture, Morpeth Northumberland, October 2002.

• Allen, W., Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Maguire, W. and Moisl, H. (2005) ‘The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: Future-Proofing a Neglected Local Resource’, Presented in the Newcastle University Public Lecture Series, March 17th 2005.

• Beal, J.C. (2005) ‘Dialects of North East England’, Presented at the Annual General Meeting of Mensa, Newcastle, July 16th 2005.

Media Articles/Radio Interviews:

i. Newspaper/Magazine Articles:

• Date Unknown: Hero (Higher Education & Research Opportunities in the UK), ‘Why no one nools a Geordie’.

• Friday, April 6th 2001: The Guardian ‘Geordie dialect gannin out of fashion'. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4166147,00.html

• Thursday, April 1^st 2004: The Journal ‘Geordie dialect gets a high survival rating’.

• Thursday, April 1^st 2004: The Sun ‘Migrants boosting dialects’.

• Thursday, April 1^st 2004: Daily Mail ‘Geordie’s on the way out, bonny lad’ (Robin Yap, Science reporter).

• Thursday, April 1^st 2004: The Times ‘New dialects fast replacing native oldies’ (Robin Young).

• Thursday, April 1^st 2004: BBC News, UK Edition ‘Migration ‘creating’ new dialects’. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3585231.stm

• Thursday, April 1^st 2004: The Daily Telegraph ‘Globalisation ‘creating dialects that replace regional accents’’(Paul Stokes).

• Thursday, April 1^st 2004: North County Times (The Californian) ‘Language more dynamic than ever’ (by Associated Press)http://ww.nctimes.com/articles/2004/04/01/special_reports/science_technology/3_31_0421_51_52.txt

• Thursday, April 1^st 2004: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ‘British dialects proliferating’ (Sue Leeman, Associated Press)

• Monday, April 5^th: The Times of India ‘Come, kiss my chuddies’ (Rashmee Z. Ahmed). http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/598807.cms

• Thursday, April 1^st 2004: The Guardian ‘Dialect explosion signals decline of BBC English’ (Martin Wainwright).

• Thursday, April 1^st 2004: The Independent ‘Linguists get chuddies in twist over dialects’ (Terry Kirby, Chief reporter).

 ii. Radio Interviews:

• April 2001: Radio Newcastle; Three Counties Radio; Forces Radio.

• April 2004: Radio Sheffield; Radio 4 (Today Programme).

 iii. Television:

• January 2005: BBC2 Inside Out Programme.