The Living Dialect of Bishop Monkton: An Historical and Descriptive Phonology
Description
A study of the dialect spoken in the North Yorkshire village of Bishop Monkton, based on data collected through fieldwork interviews with two brothers ( Ken Morland and Tom Morland) from the village, and analysis of a tape recording of Ken Morland in conversation with a friend, John Slater. An introduction to the village and the informants is followed by five chapters which present a descriptive account of the sounds of the dialect recorded in 19[79], describe the development of Middle English sounds in the living dialect (vowels of stressed and unstressed syllables), describe changes in consonantal sounds from the Old and Middle English periods down to 1980, and present a tabular summary of Old English, Middle English, Scandinavian and Old French equivalents of the stressed vowels in the Bishop Monkton dialect. An Appendix includes phonetic and orthographic transcriptions of an extract from the tape-recorded conversation between Ken Morland and a friend (tape recorded by Ken Morland's son). An index of words recorded is included.
Metadata
| Identifier | n5b3p5j7 |
| IRN | 410353 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRP/2/317 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/n5b3p5j7 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Undergraduate Dissertations |
| Creator(s) | Somerville, Nicola M |
| Date | 1980 |
| Size and Medium | xvii, 135 bound ms. leaves. |