A Survey of the Dialect Spoken at the Present Day in and Around the Village of Grindleton in the West Riding of Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: A Survey of the Dialect Spoken at the Present Day in and Around the Village of Grindleton in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/2/197
Site Location(s): Subject - Grindleton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom( 53.905, -2.36791 )
Date(s): 1949
Size and medium: ix, 163 bound ms. leaves.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410233
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
A study of the dialect spoken in the village of Grindleton in the old West Riding of Yorkshire.
An introduction to the village is followed by five chapters which give a descriptive account of the sounds of the dialect recorded in 1949, describe the development of Middle English sounds in the living dialect (vowels of stressed and unstressed syllables), provide notes on consonantal sounds and a tabular summary of vowels in 1949, with origins. Appendices contain sections on the pronunciation of the Definite Article in Grindleton, descriptions of the process and vocabulary of buttermaking and haymaking, and notes on local place names. Pencil drawings of buttermaking equipment, and a Word List, are also included.
A separate file of fieldwork notes and diagrams, contained in 90 unbound leaves [all carbon copies], accompanies the thesis. These include phonetic transcriptions of answers to questions from Version One of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire, dated August to December 1948, and an orthographic transcription of a description of buttermaking.
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