... Localised Dialect Literature CHLDL Geordie Liverpool English ing Old English OE pronoun non standard dialectology a prefixing representativeness accent morphology standardisation dialect writing historical dialectology written sources dialect songs passive knowledge active use This chapter...

... scholarship of the English Dialect Society and the Survey of English Dialects, this volume will appeal to academics in the fields of sociolinguistics and dialectology, as well as undergraduates, post-graduates and general readers interested in the language and culture of England’s most distinctive region....

... reports of conversations and cartoons in local newspapers. The North of England is a compelling geographical and dialectological focus: it is coherent part of the English-speaking world with considerable dialectal diversity and there are long traditions of dialect writing in the area. Contributions...

...Different types of features contribute to the linguistic distance between any two locations. Yet, the correlation between different feature types in defining patterns of dialectal variation represents an area of research still unexplored. In traditional dialectology, there is no obvious way...

...This chapter describes the inflected form of Romani that was spoken in Britain and explores its position within the Romani dialectal landscape. The coverage of Romani in Britain begins in 1542. In this chapter word forms are adapted to the general transliteration conventions of Romani dialectology...

...This book contains a selection of work presented at a special track on computational techniques for studying language variation held at The Thirteenth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology in Leeds on August 4–5, 2008. The conference track featured a panel session...

...This chapter presents a report of a panel discussion held in connection with the special session on computational methods in dialectology at Methods XIII: Methods in Dialectology on August 5, 2008 at the University of Leeds. This panel discussion was scheduled in order to reflect...

... aggregates. However, there are several such methods, and it is not obvious how their differences affect their usability for computational dialectology. This chapter addresses this question by comparing five such methods (factor analysis, non-negative matrix factorisation, aspect Bernoulli, independent...

... language study, phonetics learning and teaching, speech pathology and atypical speech, dialectology, accent studies and sociophonetics, conversation analysis, and forensic phonetics. dictionaries Jones Daniel uses of phonetic transcription assimilation Hart John Johnson Samuel Wells John C...

...This chapter provides an overview of the historical text corpora and digital repositories hosted by the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics and created by its predecessor, the Institute of Historical Dialectology: A Linguistic Atlas of Late Middle English (LALME...

... of past suffix variants according to stem-final segment, post-war group (H, H’) Figure 3.1 Town clerks and assistant scribes in the Dunfermline court and council records This chapter describes the compilation of a new digital resource for historical dialectology: The Dunfermline Corpus...

...), of the period 1380-1500. This new resource for historical dialectology makes it possible to test earlier assumptions about phonological changes that are characteristic of Scots and not shared with Southern English. This chapter uses LAOS to test the claim that L-vocalisation, which entails the loss of coda-/l...

... of disciplines (including dialectology, cultural studies, structural linguistics, the study of spelling and literature) in order to fully understand dialect writing, and that a range of factors (including dialectological, cultural, geographical and political factors) conspire to determine what counts...