Studies in the Linguistic Geography of Cornwall
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Studies in the Linguistic Geography of Cornwall
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/1/020
Creator(s): Wakelin, Martyn F
Site Location(s): Subject - Cornwall, England, United Kingdom( 50.4167, -4.75 )
Date(s): 1969
Size and medium: x, 358 bound typed leaves.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409916
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Ph.D. thesis based on field data recorded in 1958 by John Wright, for the Survey of English Dialects (SED); tape recordings made in the same seven SED localities by the collector and Stanley Ellis in the spring of 1963; and tape recordings in three further localities, made by the collector and Philip Tilling in July 1963. The thesis comprises six chapters: Introduction; Geographical, Social and Historical Background; Cornish and English; Phonology; Lexis; Conclusion. An appendix contains an imitation of Cornish dialectal speech from 1547.
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