The Phonology of the Living Dialect of Mansfield, and its District: A Descriptive and Historical Survey
Description
A study of the dialect spoken in the Nottinghamshire towns of Mansfield and Mansfield Woodhouse, and the nearby villages of Eakring, Halam and Oxton. Data was collected through fieldwork interviews with six principal informants, and conversations with employees at a building firm in Mansfield Woodhouse. An introduction to the area, including photographs of Sherwood Forest, Clumber Park, a Mansfield school and one of the informants, is followed by five chapters which record the vowels of the Mansfield and district dialect, the development of Middle English sounds in the dialect (vowels of stressed and unstressed syllables), and changes in consonantal sounds from the Old and Middle English periods down to 1980. The final chapter contains a tabular summary of Old English, Middle English, Scandinavian and Old French equivalents of the stressed vowels in the Mansfield and district dialects. Two appendices contain recorded examples of combinatory forms and specialised words. A Word List is also included.
Metadata
| Identifier | zt21l3kb |
| IRN | 410351 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRP/2/315 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/zt21l3kb |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Undergraduate Dissertations |
| Creator(s) | Hadwick, Geoffrey E C |
| Date | 1980 |
| Size and Medium | xv, 253 bound ms. leaves; 5 colour photographs. |