The Phonology of the Dialect of Bubwith in the East Riding of Yorkshire

Description

A study of the dialect spoken in the village of Bubwith, East Yorkshire. An introduction to the village and the area is followed by six chapters which present a descriptive account of the sounds of the dialect recorded in 1948, 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 1948, and present a tabular summary of Old English, Middle English, Scandinavian and Old French equivalents of the stressed vowels in the Bubwith dialect. The final chapter contains examples of the dialect, in the form of a Plough Stott rhyme sung by plough lads at Christmas, a New Year Lucky Bird rhyme, and pencil diagrams of a plough and a cart [the diagram of a harness used when ploughing, p.112, is missing from the thesis]. A Word List is also included. Two photographs show a man using a horse-drawn plough. Two fieldwork recording books accompany the thesis. These contain phonetic transcriptions of answers given to questions from the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire, dated August and October 1948.

Metadata

Identifier bxg5rf97
IRN 410232
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/2/196
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/bxg5rf97
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Undergraduate Dissertations
Creator(s) Langrick, Annie E
Date 1948
Size and Medium 150 bound ms. leaves; 2 b/w photographs.

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