The Living Dialect of Windhill Near Bradford Yorkshire W.R.
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: The Living Dialect of Windhill Near Bradford Yorkshire W.R.
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/2/231
Creator(s): Barker, Diana J
Site Location(s): Subject - Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.8333, -1.76667 )
Date(s): 1959
Size and medium: 177 bound ms. leaves; 6 b/w photographs.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410267
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
A study of the dialect spoken in Windhill, near Shipley in West Yorkshire, based on data collected through fieldwork interviews with five informants, and a tape-recording of two Windhill inhabitants, made by Stanley Ellis in the Easter of 1958.
An introduction to the village and the informants is followed by four chapters which present a descriptive account of the sounds of the dialect recorded in 1958, 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 1958, and present a tabular summary of Old English, Middle English, Scandinavian and Old French equivalents of stressed vowels in the living dialect. The first of two appendices contains orthographic and phonetic transcriptions of Stanley Ellis' interview with two Windhill residents. The second appendix provides information on the Definite Article. Photographs and maps of the village and area are included.
Access and usage
Reproduction
Access
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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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