The Living Dialect of Stilton (Huntingdonshire): A Descriptive and Historical Survey
Description
A study of the dialect spoken in the village of Stilton in Huntingdonshire, based on data collected during free-conversation interviews with three local people, conducted over two periods in 1960. An introduction to the research methodology, the village and the informants, is followed by five chapters which present a descriptive account of the sounds of the dialect recorded in 1960, 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 1960, and present a tabular summary of Old English, Middle English, Scandinavian and Old French equivalents of the stressed vowels in the Stilton dialect. An Index of Words includes those words used for the purpose of illustration in the study. Two photographs show views of the village in the late 1950s.
Metadata
| Identifier | rfl717c4 |
| IRN | 410277 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRP/2/241 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/rfl717c4 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Undergraduate Dissertations |
| Creator(s) | French, J F |
| Date | 1961 |
| Size and Medium | xviii, 123 bound ms. leaves; 2 b/w photographs. |