The Present Day Dialect of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire
Description
A study of the dialect spoken in the North Yorkshire town of Knaresborough, based on data collected through fieldwork interviews with two informants. An introduction to the town, the informants and the processing and presentation of the data, is followed by five chapters which present a descriptive account of the sounds of the dialect recorded in 19[80], describe the development of Middle English sounds in the living dialect (vowels of stressed and unstressed syllables), the changes in consonantal sounds from the Old and Middle English periods down to 1981, and present a tabular summary of the Old English, Middle English, Scandinavian and Old French equivalents of the stressed vowels in the Knaresborough dialect. A Word Index is included. An Ordnance Survey map (Leeds and Bradford, Sheet 104) accompanies the study.
Metadata
| Identifier | ljtm8rc5 |
| IRN | 410356 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRP/2/320 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/ljtm8rc5 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Undergraduate Dissertations |
| Creator(s) | Walker, M Jane |
| Date | 1981 |
| Size and Medium | viii, 125 bound ms. leaves; 1 colour photograph. |