The Living Dialect of Rillington
Description
A study of the dialect spoken in the village of Rillington in North Yorkshire, based on fieldwork data collected in 1957, a thesis ( 'An Account of the Dialect of Rillington') written in 1935 by C. T. Potter, a student in the Department of English Language and Medieval Literature at the University of Leeds, and the work of Peter Wright for the Survey of English Dialects. The study contains an introduction to the village and the collector's principal informants, followed by five chapters which present a descriptive account of the sounds of the dialect recorded in 1957, describe the development of Middle English sounds in the living dialect (vowels of stressed and unstressed syllables), represent traditional consonantal sounds in the Rillington dialect, and present a tabular summary of Old English, Middle English, Scandinavian and Old French (with Anglo-Norman) equivalents of stressed vowels in the living dialect. The first of three appendices presents orthographic and phonetic transcriptions of tape-recorded interviews with two Rillington inhabitants (one of whom gives a description of Rillington Feast). The second appendix contains labelled drawings and a photograph of threshing implements/machines. The third appendix provides information on irregular verbs, and the final appendix lists local pronunciations of some place names. A Word List is included. Postcard prints show views of the village.
Metadata
| Identifier | n3bvjryz |
| IRN | 410263 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRP/2/227 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/n3bvjryz |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Undergraduate Dissertations |
| Creator(s) | Bateson, Margaret |
| Date | 1958 |
| Size and Medium | x, 192, [50] bound ms. leaves; 1 sepia photograph; 6 b/w postcards. |