The Phonology of the Dialect of Lisvane, near Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan. Being a Preliminary Survey

Description

A study of the dialect spoken in Lisvane , Glamorgan, based on fieldwork interviews conducted towards the end of 1954. The collector used the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire to elicit answers from informants. An introduction to the investigation and the village is followed by four chapters which give a descriptive account of the sounds of the dialect recorded in 1954, describe the development of Middle English sounds in the living dialect (vowels of accented and unaccented syllables), and present a tabular summary of Old English, Middle English, Scandinavian and Old French equivalents of stressed vowels in the Lisvane dialect. An appendix contains an orthographic transcription of a conversation tape-recorded in December 1954, between the collector and one of his principal informants. An Index of Words [collected] is also included.

Metadata

Identifier vq9vr6ym
IRN 410257
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/2/221
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/vq9vr6ym
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Undergraduate Dissertations
Creator(s) Wright, John T
Date 1955
Size and Medium xi, 90 bound ms. leaves

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