The Living Dialect of Middlewich (Cheshire)
Description
A study of the dialect spoken in Middlewich in Cheshire, based on fieldwork data gathered during conversations with three local informants [in 1972]. An introduction to the town and the three principal informants (including photographs of local salt works and the Trent and Mersey Canal, taken in the late 1950s), is followed by chapters which present a descriptive account of the sounds of the dialect recorded in 19[72] (including hand-drawn maps showing the position of Middlewich and Anglian and West Midland dialects), describe the development of Middle English sounds in the living dialect (vowels of stressed syllables), and present a tabular summary of Old English, Middle English, Scandinavian and Old French equivalents of the stressed vowels in the Middlewich dialect. A Word List is included.
Metadata
| Identifier | p77pr93g |
| IRN | 410315 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRP/2/279 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/p77pr93g |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Undergraduate Dissertations |
| Creator(s) | Littlemore, Michael J |
| Date | 1973 |
| Size and Medium | xix, 121 bound ms. leaves; 5 b/w photographs. |