ULTRASOUND PROJECT RECEIVES COR SPECIAL RESEARCH GRANT FUNDING

The UCSC Committee on Research has awarded a Special Research Grant of $8,000 to support the continuation of a project using ultrasound to study the phonetics and phonology of Irish Gaelic consonantal palatalization. The principle investigators of the project, Ryan Bennett (Yale University, Ph.D. 2012), Grant McGuire, Máire Ní Chiosáin (University College Dublin), and Jaye Padgett, have already collected data from the three major dialect regions of Ireland. With the help of the COR grant, the project will enter a new phase next year.