The Living Dialect of Kettlewell

Description

A study of the dialect spoken in Kettlewell in North Yorkshire. An introduction to the village and the area is followed by chapters which present a descriptive account of the sounds of the dialect recorded in 1951, describe the development of Middle English sounds in the living dialect (vowels of stressed and unstressed syllables), changes in consonantal sounds from the Old and Middle English periods down to 1951, and present a tabular summary of Old English, Middle English, Scandinavian and Old French equivalents of stressed vowels in the living dialect. The first of three appendices provides examples of the dialect, extracted from interviews with two informants in July and September 1950. The three passages are recorded phonetically and orthographically. The second appendix contains information on barns in the Kettlewell district, with photographs and a diagram showing interior and exterior views. The third appendix relates information concerning five gramophone discs, submitted with the thesis, containing recordings of one male speaker from Kettlewell. Photographs of informants and the Kettlewell area are also included.

Metadata

Identifier h5y1hfm3
IRN 410238
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/2/202
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/h5y1hfm3
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Undergraduate Dissertations
Creator(s) Ellis, Stanley
Date 1951
Size and Medium xii, 86 bound ms. leaves; 13 b/w photographs.

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