Linguistic Atlases File 1
Description
“Linguistic Atlases Notes”. Card-mounted copy and original maps from various publications including the United States, England and Wales (including A.J. Ellis’ 1887 “English Dialect Districts” map), Scotland (including maps by A.J. Ellis and J.A.H. Murray), Ireland and Belgium; 2 copies of a paper on the Institute for Dialect Research (9 pp.) by its Director, Sven Benson (Lund, 1963); Harold Orton’s typed “Zurich Lecture Feb. 13 1964”, “A New Survey of English Dialects “ (19 pp.); ms. and typed paper “Contemporary English Pronunciation” (13 pp.), delivered to the Sheffield University Philosophical Society, 30 October 1940; typed paper “Dialectal English and the Student” (10 pp.), delivered at the first Sheffield post-war meeting of the Yorkshire Dialect Society in the University of Sheffield Medical Library, 11 May 1946, with 2 copies of 2 additional pages dated “Leeds, Aug. 30th 1947”; typed paper “The Study of Dialectal English” (15 pp.), presented to the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society; typed and ms. paper “The New Survey of English Dialects” (12 pp.), marked “Draft BBC Talk ... 3rd Prog. ... 18.7.50”; 2 copies of “The Sounds of English” (9 pp.), possibly a radio broadcast, March 1953; typed paper “The Study of English Dialects” (18 pp.) delivered as the “Midday Popular Lecture”, 21 November 1947; typed paper (8 pp.) marked “Basel Talk” [n.d.]; untitled typed paper (4 pp.) discussing the survey and fieldwork [n.d.]; copy of “A New Survey of English Dialects” from The Listener, 16 November 1950 (pp. 539-540); draft typescripts of lectures 1 and 3 from Orton’s Austrian tour, 1962 (11 pp. and 12 pp. respectively); course timetable and reading lists for Orton’s English courses in the United States, 1953-1954; memo and letter concerning Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language (1953); and a copy of David Shaw’s “The Statistical Analysis of Dialectal Distribution: Preliminary Report” (University of Kent at Canterbury, 1972; 8 pp.). 2 files. 1940-1972.
Metadata
| Identifier | c6sgvyj5 |
| IRN | 417560 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SED/1/3/3/1 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/c6sgvyj5 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Linguistic Atlases |
| Date | 1940-1972 |