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Total number of records: 1991

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Archives1990
Objects1

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1991
Rudolf Laban Collections1

Top 10: Subject

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culture1991
english language - dialects1991
community life621
occupations493
folk music470
language and languages418
nature355
manners and customs316
food301
agriculture298

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England30
Northumberland29
Embleton11
Lowick11
Allendale1
County Westmeath1
Earsdon1
Ellington1
Haltwhistle1
Hedden-On-The-Wall1

Top 10: People and organisations

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Orton, Harold (1898-1975)250
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)130
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)123
Russell, Ian90
Voitl, Herbert72
Dunn, Ginette69
Sullivan, Keith Frederick53
Fothergill, George William48
Harrop, Peter K38
Green, Anthony E (1943-)31

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Archive File

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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SED Questionnaire Page: Irregular and Auxiliary Verbs
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SED Questionnaire Page: Irregular and Auxiliary Verbs

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Page 68 of the SED Questionnaire as published by the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, with questions for sections IX.3 Irregular Verbs, and IX.4 Auxiliary Verbs.

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SED Northern Counties Locality List
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SED Northern Counties Locality List

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Typed list of the network of localities surveyed for the SED in the 6 Northern Counties, i.e. Northumberland, Cumberland, Durham, Westmorland, Lancashire and Yorkshire. The localities are listed in nu...

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SED Northern Counties Locality Map
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SED Northern Counties Locality Map

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Printed map, completed in ms., showing the network of localities surveyed in the Northern Counties for the SED. Each place is represented on the map by its SED locality number.

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SED Yorkshire Localities Map
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SED Yorkshire Localities Map

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Ms. map showing localities in Yorkshire surveyed for the SED. Locality names are given in full, rather than the SED locality number code.

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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 ...

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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...

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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 ...

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