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The English and Welsh Dialects of Pumpsaint, Carmarthenshire

Archive File: LAVC/SRP/1/129

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Type of record: Archive

Title: The English and Welsh Dialects of Pumpsaint, Carmarthenshire

Level: File

Classmark: LAVC/SRP/1/129

Creator(s): Stern, Janet L

Site Location(s): Subject - Pumpsaint, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom( 52.0479, -3.96143 )

Date(s): 1973

Size and medium: xvi, 147 bound ms. leaves.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410025

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

M.A. study of the English and Welsh dialects spoken in Pumpsaint ( Carmarthenshire, South Wales), based on interviews with three informants. The Introduction gives background information on bilingualism in Pumpsaint, and the collection and presentation of the data, with further chapters describing the sounds in the Welsh and English dialects of the village (consonants and vowels), and allophonic variations in the two dialects. Allophonic transcriptions (Welsh and English) of two passages taken from the fieldwork interviews, and English and Welsh Word Lists, are also included.

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