A Grammar of the Dialect of Heywood, Lancashire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: A Grammar of the Dialect of Heywood, Lancashire
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/1/117
Creator(s): Hunt, Jean
Site Location(s): Subject - Heywood, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom( 53.5924, -2.21941 )
Date(s): 1959
Size and medium: xxix, 374 bound typed leaves.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410013
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
M.A. thesis on the dialect of Heywood in Lancashire, based on the collector's own fieldwork and tape recordings of two speakers made by Stanley Ellis in February and September 1956.
The study presents a descriptive account of the sounds of the dialect recorded in 1956 and 19[58], the development of Middle English sounds in the dialect (vowels of stressed and unstressed syllables), a tabular summary of the Old English, Middle English, Scandinavian and Old French equivalents of the stressed vowels in the dialect, changes in consonantal sounds from the Old and Middle English periods down to 1959, morphology and syntax. Appendices provide phonetic and orthographic transcriptions of Stanley Ellis's tape recordings, and a note on stress in the dialect.
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Physical and technical conditions
Notes from original project: Working copies of the gramophone disc recordings have not been made. The information they contain is therefore only available via the transcriptions within the thesis.
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