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Dialect File
[1933-1998]
This series contains items deposited in the Dialect File. In addition to papers on aspects of dialects and language, in particular English and United States English, the series includes glossaries of ...
Miscellaneous Dialect Papers 1
1971-1972
This file contains a mounted newspaper cutting from 'The Guardian' on the Survey of English Dialects (SED) and the publication of the final Basic Material volumes (4 October 1971); an ms. letter from ...
An Exploratory Investigation of Variations in the Accented Outputs of Underlying Short Vowels in a Dialect of Southern States English
Bailey, Charles James N
1967
This file contains a photocopy of a preliminary version of a paper which examines variations in the nuclear peaks of underlying short vowel sounds in the English of the Southern United States, based o...
Illustrations Used with the Survey of English Dialects Questionnaire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[ca. 1950s]
This file contains a photocopy of the notebook of illustrations used by Stanley Ellis as a visual aid to elicit responses to the Survey of English Dialects (SED) questionnaire. The images include tool...
Some Acoustic Differences Among Languages
Hanley, T D; Snidecor, J C; Ringel, R L
1966
This file contains a copy of a joint paper which discusses an experiment to examine tonal differences between spoken Spanish, Japanese and American English, based on field recordings made of students ...
Survey of English Dialects Sound Recording Documentation and Transcriptions
1964-1973
This file contains documentation relating to sound recordings made for the Survey of English Dialects (SED), including informant records; and transcriptions of SED sound recordings. These include Mich...
Narrow Phonetic Transcription on the Computer: Taking the Phone off the Hook
Keil, Gerald C
1974
This file contains a photocopy of Gerald Keil's typed paper (17, [6] pp.) on the IMPAC project to index, map and analyse data collected for the Survey of English Dialects (SED), using a computer. The ...
Sawdsheet
1972
This file contains issue no. 2 (Easter 1972) of 'Sawdsheet', a periodical on aspects of Anglo-Welsh dialect issued by the Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects at University College, Swansea (now the Univers...
Ulster Dialect Archive Bulletin
Ulster Folk Museum. Dialect Archive
1965
This file contains issues 1 and 2 of the 'Ulster Dialect Archive Bulletin' (January and April 1965). The bulletins are accompanied by a typed letter from G. B. Adams to Harold Orton, and a leaflet and...
Remarks upon Field Work for an English Linguistic Atlas of England.
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1953
This file contains a photocopy of Harold Orton's article outlining how the Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldwork was conducted, and the 3-4 day process undertaken by fieldworkers to elicit inform...
An English Devonian Dialect Glossary
Goodridge, Doris
[ ca. mid 20th century]
This file contains a glossary of the dialect of Devon, compiled from words collected by Doris Goodridge between 1916 and 1934. It also includes a short list of West-Devonian expressions.
Miscellaneous Dialect Papers 2
1951-1972
This file contains 'Some Acoustic Difference between Educated Australian and General American Dialects', by T. D. Hanley and Moya Landsberg Andrews, offprinted from 'Phonetica', volume 17, number 4 (1...