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The Phonology of the Dialect of North Wootton

Archive File: LAVC/SRP/2/312

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Type of record: Archive

Title: The Phonology of the Dialect of North Wootton

Level: File

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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