Questionnaire Response Books: Non-SED and Unused Locations
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Questionnaire Response Books: Non-SED and Unused Locations
Classmark: LAVC/SED/2/4
Date(s): 1951-1952
Size and medium: 3 magazine files with 14 ms. response books.; 0.315 linear metres.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409638
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
This subseries includes fieldwork response books recording phonetically the responses of Survey of English Dialects (SED) informants to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were recorded by fieldworkers J.M.S., Eugen Dieth, Stanley Ellis, Peter Wright and Donald Sykes. The locations visited include Cowpen Bewley (J.M.S. and Dieth, 1952), Digby (Ellis and Wright, 1951), Clun (Ellis, 1952), Edgmond (Sykes, 195?) and Montacute (Wright, 1952). Only Clun was included in the SED Basic Material.
The 14 books are made up of 4 copies of Cowpen Bewley, 6 copies of Digby, 1 copy of Clun, 1 copy of Edgemond and 2 copies of Montacute.
System of arrangement
The response books are grouped by county location, and by fieldworker.
Access and usage
Reproduction
Access
Access to the manuscript and printed items in this subfonds is unrestricted. Mini disc copies of the audio tape recordings are available for consultation in the searchroom of Special Collections, University of Leeds. Access copies of the gramophone disc recordings are not available.
Copyright in all Survey of English Dialects material resides with the University of Leeds.
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