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Sound Recordings, [United States]
Smith, Lloyd Allen
[1978]
[Collector announcement: a collection of edited field recordings, originally made by the collector, and dubbed onto the present tape in ?1978]; examples of scales played on Pennsylvanian German zyther...
United Kingdom Linguistic Surveys
1951-1985
This subseries contains general, country-wide dialect surveys of Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and more specific surveys relating to particular aspects of language usage.
Ethnographical Survey of the United Kingdom
British Association for the Advancement of Science
[1960s-1970s]
This file contains photocopies of items from the Reports of the 65th, 66th and 67th meetings of the British Association ( 1895-1897). The photocopies contain the 3rd, 4th and 5th reports of the Associ...
From Etic to Emic Units in the Structural Study of Folktales
Dundes, Alan
1962
Three photocopies of Dundes' article, published in the 'Journal of American Folklore', volume 75, no. 296 (April-June 1962), pp. 95-105.
The Language of the Meat Trade: A Survey of Terms Used by a Selected Sample of Butchers in the United Kingdom
Upton, Clive Stanley
1977
Ph.D. thesis containing seven chapters and three appendices, presenting the findings of an enquiry into the technical lexicon of the meat trade of the United Kingdom which was carried out between 1973...
Relics of the Past
1965-1976
This sub-subseries contains items relating to prehistoric and historic sites, chiefly within the United Kingdom.
The Language of Storytelling
Graham, Jacqueline P
1980
A study which examines the telling of the same story to the collector by two different informants. Both concern a local character known as Buttonsticks, and were related to the collector in July 1979....
The Appalachian Dulcimer to 1940: A Census and Typology of Pre-Revival Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Fretted Zithers in the Upland South of the United States with an Analysis of Their Musical Intervals
Smith, Lloyd Allen
1979
Volume one of this Ph.D. comprises an introduction and methodology chapter, outlining previous work in the field, current method and a preliminary morphology, with notes on terminology. The following ...
Some Dialect Isoglosses in England
Finners, N
1958
This file contains a typed paper, with ms. annotations, presented to the American Dialect Society, with accompanying maps. The paper uses survey data from the United States and Great Britain to invest...
Military Humour
Wills, Caroline
1979
A study of verbal military humour, based on written items sent to the collector from a British Army unit based in Antwerp (70 items), and 500 items from the Humor in Uniform pages of the 'Readers' Dig...
Miscellaneous Collections of Folklore
1951-1985
This subseries contains typed and printed items relating to folklife activities and research, both in the United Kingdom, and in Europe and the United States. It includes printed ephemera and guides t...
"Urban Negro Speech: Sociolinguistic Factors Affecting English Teachers"
Stewart, William A
[1965]
Typed paper intended for the 'Proceedings of the Conference on Urban Social Dialects and Language Learning' (National Council for Teachers of English, 1965). The paper discusses the difficulties of te...