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The Phonology and Grammar of the Dialect of South Zeal, Devonshire
Harris, Martin Best
1967
A thesis which describes the phonology, morphology and syntax of the Devonshire dialect spoken in the village of South Zeal, based on a corpus of tape recorded material (c. 20 hours) collected through...
The Stressed Vowels in the Dialects of Longtown, Abbey Town and Hunsonby (Cumberland): A Structural Approach
Stursberg, Mario
1970
A dissertation investigating the dialects of three villages, Longtown, Abbey Town and Hunsonby, in the old county of Cumberland, and submitted for the Degree of PhD at the University of Basel. The s...
Vowel Pronunciation in the Yorkshire Dales
Hameleers, Harald; Jong, Nico
1983
A study of vowel pronunciation in the speech of people living in the Yorkshire Dales, based on fieldwork data collected during July 1982 through tape-recorded interviews with thirty informants in five...
A Study of Speech Patterns in the Urban District of Cannock, Staffordshire
Heath, Christopher D
1971
Ph.D. thesis containing eight chapters and six appendices on urban speech patterns in Cannock (Staffordshire). The chapters comprise a general introduction, a reconsideration of phonology, the classif...
Scouse: The Urban Dialect of Liverpool
Knowles, Gerald O
1973
This Ph.D. begins with a brief consideration of fieldwork, followed by a general discussion of the Scouse dialect of Liverpool. The main problem for description is found to be the phonology rather tha...
The Dialect of Allenheads
Bayliffe, I
1930
Undergraduate thesis comprising a phonological description of the dialect of Allenheads . Includes six sepia photographic prints of informants and Allenheads village, and Harold Orton's ms. notes and ...
Grammar, etc.: Cheshire
[1960s]
Collated data relating to grammar and usage collected from Survey of English Dialects (SED) responses for localities in Cheshire. This includes sets of individual data sheets for Kingsley, Rainow, Swe...
Lists of Forms
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1960s]
This file contains papers which record the different word forms collected at different locations, and in different counties, on a single sheet or set of sheets. The recordings all appear to have been ...
A Study in the Living Durham Dialect: A Contribution to an English Linguistic Atlas
Bailes, John Lloyd
1948
M.A. study of the dialect of seven communities in Durham, using the questionnaire compiled by Harold Orton and Eugen Dieth (Bailes had accompanied them on three of their preliminary fieldwork visits i...
Intonation in Lincolnshire Dialect
Haldenby, Cynthia
1959
M.A. thesis which investigates the dialectal intonation of a selected area in Lincolnshire (the extreme north of the Lindsey division), analysing intonational tunes of the living dialect of the area t...
The Living Dialect of Stokesay, Shropshire
Jacks, Diane S M
1968
M.Phil. study of the dialect spoken in the parish of Stokesay, based on interviews with four informants living in the hamlets of Newton , Aldon and one unnamed location. The study's chapters provide a...
A Grammar of the Dialect of Great Hale, Lincolnshire
Brown, Robin
1969
M.Phil. thesis in three parts. Part One is based on, and a rewriting of, the collector's 1960 B.A. dissertation on the phonology of the living dialect of Great Hale (see LAVC/SRP/2/237). The postgradu...