Studies in the Historical Phonology of the Yorkshire Dialects

Description

Ph.D. thesis which analyses fieldwork data collected as part of the Survey of English Dialects, and compares it with information contained in monographs on separate Yorkshire localities. This covers the development of the Middle English vowels in stressed syllables in the living dialects of Yorkshire, a descriptive account of the sources from which the occasional spellings have been abstracted, and the history of the stressed vowel sounds in the dialects of Yorkshire during the modern period. Five appendices include sections on the language of the 'Yorkshire Dialogue', W. H. Marshall's "Provincialisms of East Yorkshire"in his 'Rural Economy of Yorkshire'(London, 1788), Ralph Thoresby's letter to John Ray, some maps relating to the Yorkshire consonantal system and a list of words upon which the thesis is primarily based. The thesis also includes a word index, and indexes of place names and personal names.

Metadata

Identifier ksdhg6xv
IRN 409912
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/1/016
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/ksdhg6xv
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Postgraduate Theses and Dissertations
Creator(s) Dean, Christopher
Date 1953
Size and Medium lxxii, 446 bound typed leaves.

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