The Phonology of the Dialect of Himley, in South Staffordshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: The Phonology of the Dialect of Himley, in South Staffordshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/2/225
Creator(s): Hubbard, Wendy E
Site Location(s): Subject - Himley, Dudley, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.519, -2.18182 )
Date(s): 1957
Size and medium: xiv, 121 bound ms. leaves.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410261
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
A study of the dialect spoken in Himley, Staffordshire, based on fieldwork data collected by Peter Gibson and used in his M.A. thesis, 'Studies in the Linguistic Geography of Staffordshire' (Leeds 1955, LAVC/SRP/1/111). Reference is also made to an audio recording of a Himley speaker, made by Stanley Ellis in January 1955.
An introduction to the village is followed by five chapters which present a descriptive account of the sounds of the dialect recorded in 1955, describe the development of Middle English sounds in the living dialect (vowels of stressed and unstressed syllables), describe changes in consonantal sounds from the Old and Middle English periods down to 1955, and present a tabular summary of Old English, Middle English, Scandinavian and Old French equivalents of stressed vowels in the living dialect. A Word List is included, and two appendices present a phonetic transcription of Ellis' audio recording, and information on the verb to be in the Himley dialect.
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Physical and technical conditions
Notes from original project: A working copy of the gramophone disc recording has not been made. The information it contains is therefore currently unavailable, although a transcript is contained within the body of the study.
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