The Living Dialect of White Coppice
Description
A study of the dialect spoken in White Coppice in Lancashire, based on the answers of two informants to questions from the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire, recorded over Easter and July 1963. An introduction to the village and the principal informant (illustrated with photographs) is followed by chapters which present a descriptive account of the sounds in the White Coppice dialect in 1963, and describe the development of Middle English vowels and consonants in the dialect. The first of two appendices contains the informants' responses to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire (Books I-IX), recorded phonetically by the collector. The second appendix contains a vocabulary and account of stone quarrying on the Anglezarke Moor behind White Coppice, collected from a retired quarry worker. The third appendix contains an extract from a tape recording of the collector's principal informant, made for her by Stanley Ellis [in 1963]. This has been transcribed orthographically and phonetically. An Index of Words is included.
Metadata
| Identifier | wmjwmh8q |
| IRN | 410288 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRP/2/252 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/wmjwmh8q |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Undergraduate Dissertations |
| Creator(s) | Sutcliffe, L Jean |
| Date | 1964 |
| Size and Medium | ix, x, 170 bound ms. leaves; 10 b/w photographs. |