Description
A scholarly analysis of the phonology of the Devonshire dialect, based on extensive research and fieldwork, detailing its historical context and phonetic features. 4000 instances of dialect pronunciation, selected from a corpus of over 14,000 lexical items collected during this study, are categorized and exemplified. The study incorporates new dialect information from the ‘Linguistic Atlas of Late Middle English’ (1989) and evaluates data from the ‘Survey of English Dialects’ (1962-71) for the first time. It shows what is distinctive in the Devonshire dialect’s vowels and consonants, and identifies two significant linguistic boundaries or isoglosses. Flaws in previous studies are highlighted, and the use of photograph cue-cards, created by the author, are recommended in fieldwork elicitations of dialect speech.
Many original maps and charts aid the reader to visualize the distribution of various dialect pronunciations, and a full Dialect Questionnaire is appended.
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