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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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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 ...