A Descriptive Account of the Dialect of Trawden, Lancashire
Description
A study of the dialect spoken in the village of Trawden in Lancashire, based on data collected through fieldwork interviews with five principal informants. An introduction to the village and the informants is followed by five chapters which present a descriptive account of the sounds of the dialect recorded in 19[74], describe the development of Middle English sounds in the living dialect (vowels of stressed and unstressed syllables), describe changes in consonantal sounds from the Old and Middle English periods down to 1975, and present a tabular summary of Old English, Middle English, Old French and Scandinavian equivalents of the stressed vowels in the Trawden dialect. An Appendix contains a list of unusual words and phrases, with their meanings. An Index lists all the words used for the purposes of illustration in the study. The photographs show views of the village.
Metadata
| Identifier | bgt75nf4 |
| IRN | 410326 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRP/2/290 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/bgt75nf4 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Undergraduate Dissertations |
| Creator(s) | Swindlehurst, Kay Louise |
| Date | 1975 |
| Size and Medium | xii, 166 bound ms. leaves; 6 colour photographs. |