The Dialect of Wigan: Its Descriptive and Historical Phonology
Description
A study of the dialect spoken in Wigan, Lancashire, based on data collected through fieldwork interviews with three local people. An introduction to the town and the informants is followed by four chapters which present a descriptive account of the sounds of the dialect recorded in 19[77], describe the development of Middle English sounds in the living dialect (vowels of stressed and unstressed syllables), and present a tabular summary of the Old English, Middle English, Scandinavian and Old French equivalents of the stressed vowels in the Wigan dialect. The first of three appendices contains a brief summary of the major consonantal changes in the dialect, from Middle English to 1977. The second appendix comprises a list of unusual words and phrases, with their meanings, recorded during the fieldwork. The final appendix contains a Word List.
Metadata
| Identifier | jmm2ygxb |
| IRN | 410338 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRP/2/302 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/jmm2ygxb |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Undergraduate Dissertations |
| Creator(s) | Beahan, Gary P |
| Date | 1978 |
| Size and Medium | ix, 136 bound ms. leaves; 3 colour photographs. |