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Sponsors
funded the NECTE project,
grant number
RE/AN6422/APN11776, under the
Resource Enhancement Scheme, whose central purpose 'is
to support projects that are designed to enhance access to and the
availability of research materials and resources of key importance
to the arts and humanities. It thus seeks to support the creation,
maintenance and development of the scholarly and intellectual
infrastructure of research in the arts and humanities'. To the AHRC
we would like to extend our sincere thanks for its support.
The corpus has also
benefited from a variety of other grants from other sources. All the
NECTE-related grants are listed below in chronologically descending
order. We would hereby like to thank all these funding bodies for their
support.
1 |
Title: “Phonetic Transcription of the Tyneside Linguistic
Survey’s Newcastle Recordings” |
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Source: British Academy |
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BA Grant
No.: SG-36753 |
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Period of
Award: April
2004 to November 2004 |
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Principal
Investigator: Hermann Moisl |
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Research
Associate: Warren Maguire
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Aims: This project was an
extension of the AHRC-funded Newcastle Electronic Corpus of
Tyneside English (NECTE). The Tyneside Linguistic Survey
(TLS) recordings, enhanced during the NECTE phase, were made in
Gateshead south of the Tyne. Consultation with some of the original
TLS researchers since work on the AHRC project began revealed that
some additional recordings had been undertaken in the city of
Newcastle itself. There was a general consensus, however, that these
had been lost due to poor archiving methods. The NECTE team was,
however, able to locate 7 TLS phonetic transcriptions of the
Newcastle recordings via the Oxford Text Archive,
and this British Academy award was used to reconstruct these
transcriptions so that they could be added to the NECTE corpus.
Provision of the Newcastle material as part NECTE was felt to be critical, since it allows for comparison
of the speech communities north and south of the Tyne. |
2 |
Title: “A
Linguistic Time-Capsule: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside
English”
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Source: Catherine Cookson Foundation. |
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Grant No.:
RES/3300/70XX |
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Period of
Award: July 2001 to December 2001 |
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Principal
Investigator: Hermann Moisl |
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Co-
Investigators: Joan Beal & Karen Corrigan |
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Research
Associates: Alison Furness and Warren Maguire |
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Aims:
The main aim of this
research was to complete the first pass orthographic
transcriptions of all of the TLS and PVC data (Furness working
on the former and Maguire on the latter). |
3 |
Title: “The
Newcastle-Poitiers Corpus of Tyneside English”
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Source: British Academy Small Grant |
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BA Grant
No.:
SG-30122
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Period of
Award: January 2000 to October 2001 |
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Principal Investigator: Joan Beal |
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Co-Investigator: Karen Corrigan
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Research
Associates: Alison Furness and Jonathan Marshall |
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Aims:
The aim of this grant was to pay for an RA (Alison Furness) for 3
months to do further transcriptions. After the final report was
submitted, the BA agreed that the small surplus should be used to
pay for digitization of the TLS tapes. Jonathan Marshall of the
University of Edinburgh was engaged to do this.
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4 |
Title: “Syntactic
Change in Progress?: The Newcastle-Poitiers Electronic Corpus of
Tyneside English” |
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Source: Newcastle University
Research Committee, Small Grants Panel |
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RSU Code: R44.1580
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Period of Award: November 1999 to November 2000 |
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Principal Investigator: Karen Corrigan |
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Research
Associate: Pauline Pimblott
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Aims:
The main aim of this research was
to create a socio-demographic database for speakers and to
facilitate further first pass orthographic transcriptions of both
the TLS and PVC corpora. |
5 |
Title:
“Comparing the Present with the Past to Predict the Future for
Tyneside English” |
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Source: Newcastle University Research
Committee, Small Grants Panel.
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RSU Code:
R44.1562 |
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Period of
Award: August
1999. |
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Award
Holder: Joan Beal
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Aim:
The main objective of this grant was to pay for travel costs for
Joan Beal to attend Methods in Dialectology X, Memorial
University, Newfoundland, to present a paper jointly authored with
Karen Corrigan (title as grant application). |
6 |
Title: “The Newcastle-Poitiers Corpus of Tyneside English”
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Source: British Academy & British-French Joint
Projects with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(CNRS) |
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RSU
Code: RES/3300/7001 |
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Period of
Award: November
1999 to November 2000. |
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Principal Investigators: Joan Beal,
University of Newcastle; Claire Gérard, University of
Poitiers |
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Co-Investigators: Karen Corrigan, University of
Newcastle, Marc Fryd, University of Poitiers, Jean-Louis Duchat, University of
Poitiers |
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Aims:
The main objective of this research was to begin developing
the Newcastle-Poitiers electronic
Archive. The funding was to pay for (i)
travel to meetings in Britain and France, in which detailed
plans and policy
were formulated, and (ii) attendance at conferences at which
the project's work in progress was disseminated and colleagues
were consulted prior to an application for an AHRB resource
enhancement award. |
7 |
Title:
“Investigating the Social Trajectories of Modal Verb Usage in
Tyneside English” |
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Source: Newcastle University Research
Committee, Vacation Scholarship Panel |
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Period of
Award: June 1999 to August 1999. |
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Supervisors: Joan Beal and Karen Corrigan.
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Scholar: Alice Birkett. |
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Aims:
The main aim of this project was
to offer Alice Birkett the opportunity to undertake paid independent
research as a taster for a postgraduate career. The NECTE
project benefited in that the transcribed electronic TLS
corpus to date was mined for specific morpho-syntactic features. |
8 |
Title: “Comparing
the Present with the Past to Predict the Future for Tyneside
English”
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Source: Newcastle University Research
Committee, Vacation Scholarship Panel |
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Period of
Award: June 1998 to
August 1998. |
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Supervisor: Karen Corrigan.
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Scholar: Pauline Pimblott. |
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Aims:
The main aim of this project was
to offer Pauline Pimblott the opportunity to undertake paid
independent research as a taster for a postgraduate career. The
NECTE project benefited in that this was the first comparative
study of the TLS and PVC materials along the lines of
the real-time study conducted in Corrigan (1997). The first
orthographic transcriptions of the PVC corpus were made
during this research and the first Orthographic Transcription
Protocol (OTP) was developed. |
9 |
Title: “The
Catherine Cookson Archive of Northumbrian Dialect” |
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Source: Catherine Cookson Foundation
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Period of
Award: Academic year 1994-1995 |
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Principle
Investigator: Joan Beal |
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Research
Assistants: Alison Furness and Janet Lamb |
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Aims:
The main aim of this grant was to
set up an Archive for the preservation of Tyneside and Northumbrian
dialect materials: to salvage the TLS reel-to-reel tapes, transfer
them to audio-cassette format, catalogue them and archive them in a
specially designated room in the Percy Building --‘The Catherine
Cookson Archive of Northumbrian Dialect’. Janet Lamb was engaged as
a research assistant on this project and she completed the tasks
listed above. The remainder of the grant was used to pay Alison
Furness to carry out further orthographic transcriptions from the
new audio cassettes. |
Finally,
we would like to express out gratitude to the Newcastle University Institute of Arts, Social
Sciences and Humanities and Palgrave Macmillan for contributions
towards the book projects associated with NECTE.
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