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Questionnaire Response Books and Related Papers
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)
1931-1965
This series contains items which relate in the main to the collection of fieldwork data for the Survey of English Dialects (SED). The practical starting point for the SED was the production of the Die...
Dieth-Orton Questionnaire
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)
1931-1953
This subseries consists of items relating to the compilation and testing of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire, which forms the basis of the fieldwork for the SED. The subseries includes drafts of the Ques...
Questionnaire Response Books
1950-1961
This subseries contains the original response books in which the Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldworkers recorded informants' responses to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. A response book exists f...
Duplicate Response Books
1950-1961
This subseries consists of duplicate copies of the response books held at LAVC/SED/2/2. As the fieldwork information recorded in these duplicate response books quite literally duplicates the informant...
Questionnaire Response Books: Non-SED and Unused Locations
1951-1952
This subseries includes fieldwork response books recording phonetically the responses of Survey of English Dialects (SED) informants to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were recorded by fieldw...
Questionnaire Response Books: Miscellaneous Items
[ca. 1950]
This subseries consists of various forms of printed, blank (i.e. not completed in ms.) pages intended for recording the responses of informants to elements of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire.
Informants
1955-1964
This subseries includes biographical details of a number of informants (although not all) involved in responding to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire for the Survey of English Dialects; instructions on re...
Fieldworkers and Fieldwork
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1945-1965
This subseries includes ms. maps and notes recording the progress of fieldwork; published maps with Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities marked; fieldwork expenses books; and illustrations used...
Post-Fieldwork Processing of Response Books
[1960s]
In order to facilitate the preparation of the data collected in the Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldwork response books for publication, editorial sheets were produced onto which responses from ...
Questionnaire Version 1
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)
1946-1947
This sub-subseries includes typescript drafts of version 1 of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire; correspondence with the Yorkshire Dialect Society; an ms. notebook and fieldwork response books belonging t...
Questionnaire Version 2
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)
1948-1949
This sub-subseries includes typescript drafts of version 2 of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire; and ms. fieldwork response books, completed by H. Collins, Harold Orton, and Peter Wright, recording the te...
Questionnaire Version 3
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)
1949-1950
This sub-subseries includes typescript papers on the progress of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire and Survey of English Dialects (SED) plans; typescript drafts of version 3 of the Dieth-Orton Questionnai...