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Publications

Special issue in English Language and Linguistics: ‘Studies in Late Modern English Historical Phonology using the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database (ECEP)’, edited by Joan C. Beal, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Ranjan Sen & Christine Wallis. 2020, vol. 24(3), 471–606.

Beal, Joan C. 2012. “By those provincials mispronounced”: The strut vowel in eighteenth-century pronouncing dictionaries. Language and History 55(1), 5–17.

Beal, Joan C. 2020. “A received pronunciation”: Eighteenth-century pronouncing dictionaries and the precursors of RP. In Merja Kytö & Erik Smitterberg (eds.), Late Modern English: Novel encounters, 22–41. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Beal, Joan C. & Marco Condorelli. 2014. Cut from the same cloth? Variation and change in the cloth lexical set. Token: A Journal of English Linguistics 3, 15–36.

Beal, Joan C. & Ranjan Sen. 2014. Towards a corpus of eighteenth-century English phonology. In Kristin Davidse, Caroline Gentens, Ditte Kimps & Lieven Vandelanotte (eds), Recent advances in corpus linguistics: Developing and exploiting corpora, 31–53. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Beal, Joan C., Ranjan Sen, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza & Christine Wallis. 2020. En[dj]uring [ʧ]unes or ma[tj]ure [ʤ]ukes? Yod-coalescence and yod-dropping in the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database. English Language and Linguistics 24(3), 493–526.

Hickey, Raymond. 2020. Variation in trap and bath: on the recent history of low vowels in English. English Language and Linguistics 24(3), 545–67.

Maguire, Warren. 2020. The origins of owld in Scots. English Language and Linguistics 24(3), 569–89.

Trapateau, Nicolas. 2020. Lexical diffusion in the making: the lengthening of Middle English /a/ during the eighteenth century and across the diasystem of English. English Language and Linguistics 24(3), 527–43.

Wallis, Christine. 2020. Using the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database (ECEP) as a teaching resource. English Language and Linguistics 24(3), 591–606.

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2020. ECEP: historical corpora, historical phonology, and historical pronouncing dictionaries. English Language and Linguistics 24(3), 475–92.

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2023. Historiographical methods. In Joan C. Beal, Morana Lukač & Robin Straaijer (eds.), The Routledge handbook of linguistic prescriptivism, 54–72. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria, Joan C. Beal, Ranjan Sen & Christine Wallis. 2018. Common, proper and vulgar pro-nun-∫ha-∫hun in eighteenth-century English: ECEP as a new tool for the study of historical phonology and dialectology. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 33(1), 203–27.

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria & Mar Nieves-Fernández. Forthcoming. The velar nasal in thing and think: Evidence from Thomas Spence’s (1775) pronouncing dictionary for the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database.

Conference presentations (in reverse chronological order)

Nieves-Fernández, Mar. 2023. Tracing variation in the velar nasal /ŋ/ in eighteenth-century pronouncing dictionaries. 22nd International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, 3-6 July 2023.

Nieves-Fernández, Mar. 2022. “These adventitious accents”: Accentuation and prosody in William Kenrick’s A New Dictionary of the English Language (1773). AEDEAN 45, University of Extremadura, 16-18 November 2022.

Sen, Ranjan, Joan C. Beal, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza & Christine Wallis. 2019. En[dj]uring [ʧ]unes or ma[tj]ure [ʤ]ukes? Palatalisation in the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database (ECEP). Fourth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology, Edinburgh, 9-10 December 2019.

Beal, Joan C., Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Ranjan Sen & Christine Wallis. 2017. The eighteenth century speaks: The Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database. HRI Catalyse, Sheffield, 4 December 2017.

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. 2016. Phonological variants in eighteenth-century English: Evidence from contemporary pronouncing dictionaries. 40th AEDEAN 2016, Huesca, 9-11 November 2016.

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria, Joan C. Beal, Ranjan Sen & Christine Wallis. 2016. Common, proper and vulgar pro-nun-∫ha-∫hun in eighteenth-century English: ECEP as a new tool for the study of historical phonology and dialectology. 19th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 19), Duisburg-Essen, 22-26 August 2016.

Beal, Joan C. & Ranjan Sen. 2015. En[dj]uring [ʧ]unes or ma[tj]ure [ʤ]ukes? Palatalisation in eighteenth-century English: Evidence from the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database. 9th Studies in the History of the English Language Conference (SHEL-9), Vancouver, 5-7 June 2015.

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria, Joan C. Beal, Ranjan Sen & Christine Wallis. 2015. The Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database: The phonology of lexical sets in eighteenth-century English. ICAME 36, Trier, 27-31 May 2015.

Beal, Joan C. & Ranjan Sen. 2014. (W)ho, w(h)en, w(h)ere, and w(h)at? The eighteenth-century pronunciation of ‘wh’. 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 18), Leuven, 14-18 July 2014.

Beal, Joan C. & Ranjan Sen. 2012. (W)ho, w(h)en, w(h)ere, and w(h)at? The eighteenth-century pronunciation of ‘wh’. Journée Parole 4: Walker and the English of his Time (18th c.–19th c.), Poitiers, 16-17 November 2012.

Beal, Joan C. & Ranjan Sen. 2012. /hw ~w/at about a phonological corpus of Late Modern English? The Phonology of Contemporary English. Variation and Change (PAC 2012), Toulouse, 1-2 March 2012.