The Living Dialect of Queensbury, Near Bradford, Yorkshire West Riding

Description

A study of the dialect spoken in Queensbury in West Yorkshire. An introduction to the town is followed by a chapter which gives a descriptive account of the dialect in 1954 (with sections on vowels and consonants). The second chapter contains answers given to questions from the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire, Books III to IX. These are recorded phonetically on forty-eight unbound leaves, dated 1953-1954. The first appendix contains phonetic and orthographic transcriptions of two female speakers, tape-recorded for the collector by Stanley Ellis. The second appendix contains a list of terms connected with the barrel making industry in Queensbury, and the third appendix contains an account of barrel making in the town, including labelled line drawings of a barrel and coopers' tools. A Word List is also included. Postcard prints within the study show views of the town, and a newspaper cutting shows Stanley Ellis interviewing his two informants [the provenance of the cutting is not known]. A duplicate copy of the answers to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire accompanies the study. This includes additional information on fieldwork and the collector's informants. 44 bound ms. leaves, [8].

Metadata

Identifier pgs27bqw
IRN 410243
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/2/207
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/pgs27bqw
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Undergraduate Dissertations
Creator(s) Ambler, Pamela J
Date 1954
Size and Medium ii, 49 unbound ms. leaves.

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