The Phonology of the Dialect of North Wootton

Description

A study of the dialect spoken in the Norfolk village of North Wootton, based on data collected through fieldwork interviews with one female informant, resident in the village for eighty years. An introduction to the village and the informant is followed by four chapters which record the allophones of the phonemes of the North Wootton dialect, the development of Middle English vowels and diphthongs in stressed syllables in the dialect, the vowels of unstressed syllables in the dialect, and a present a tabular summary of the vowels and diphthongs. An Index is also included.

Metadata

Identifier r4rn1qmv
IRN 410348
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/2/312
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/r4rn1qmv
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Undergraduate Dissertations
Creator(s) Townsend, Hilary J
Date 1979
Size and Medium 105 bound ms. leaves.

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