The Phonology of the Dialect of North Wootton
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Type of record: Archive
Title: The Phonology of the Dialect of North Wootton
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/2/312
Creator(s): Townsend, Hilary J
Site Location(s): Subject - North Wootton, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.7833, 0.43333 )
Date(s): 1979
Size and medium: 105 bound ms. leaves.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410348
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
A study of the dialect spoken in the Norfolk village of North Wootton, based on data collected through fieldwork interviews with one female informant, resident in the village for eighty years.
An introduction to the village and the informant is followed by four chapters which record the allophones of the phonemes of the North Wootton dialect, the development of Middle English vowels and diphthongs in stressed syllables in the dialect, the vowels of unstressed syllables in the dialect, and a present a tabular summary of the vowels and diphthongs. An Index is also included.
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