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Donnerstag, 1. August 2019
BL Newsletter: Sound map - Accents & dialects - Survey of English Dialects
The Survey of English Dialects (SED) was a groundbreaking
nationwide survey of the vernacular speech of England, undertaken by
researchers based at the University of Leeds under the direction of
Harold Orton. From 1950 to 1961 a team of fieldworkers collected data in
a network of 313 localities across England, initially in the form of
transcribed responses to a questionnaire containing over 1300 items. The
informants were mostly farm labourers, predominantly male and generally
over 65 years old as the aim of the survey was to capture the most
conservative forms of folk-speech. Almost all the sites visited by the
researchers were rural locations, as it was felt that traditional
dialect was best preserved in isolated areas. It was initially the
intention to include urban areas at a later date, but this plan had to
be abandoned on economic grounds.
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