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The Linguistic Atlas of Scotland

Author : J. Y. Mather

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Page : 464 pages

File Size : 18,21 MB

Release : 1975

Category : English language

ISBN :

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These first two volumes of "The Linguistic Atlas of Scotland" cover the Scots dialect, devoted to word-geographical material. The data is presented cartographically because no other method makes as powerful and effective an impact, and the maps are an analysis of a kind which dialectologists can carry out. These investigations will hopefully remain ongoing, as much remains to be done. The data presented belong to the hundreds of people all over Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northumberland, Cumberland, and the Isle of Man who gave of their unique knowledge freely, with real sensitivity and interest. A language belongs to the people who use it.





The Linguistic Atlas of England

Author : Harold Orton

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 545 pages

File Size : 32,95 MB

Release : 2013-11-05

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1136188525

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This fascinating record of how English is spoken in England is now being reprinted. Over 400 maps detail differences in phonology, lexicon, morphology and syntax. The Atlas provides a unique survey of the linguistic geography of England. This volume was inspired by the English Dialect Survey which set out to elicit information about the current dialectical usages of the older members of the farming communities throughout rural England. The Survey secondly mapped this information to illustrate the regional distributions of those features of their speech which persisted from ancient times. Published after Orton's death, the publication of this volume testified to the sustained interest in the lingusitic geography of England.



Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age

Author : Rhona Alcorn

Publisher : Edinburgh University Press

Page : 190 pages

File Size : 20,60 MB

Release : 2019-01-03

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1474430554

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Examines how pre-modernist conceptions and social organizations of pleasure have impacted post-WWII film.



Principles of Phonetics

Author : John Laver

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 742 pages

File Size : 21,28 MB

Release : 1994-05-12

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9780521456555

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Comprehensive textbook on phonetics, with examples from over 500 languages.



Language and a Sense of Place

Author : Chris Montgomery

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 387 pages

File Size : 46,41 MB

Release : 2017-05-25

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1107098718

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This book explores twenty-first century approaches to place by bringing together a range of language variation and change research.



Issues in Scottish Vowel Quantity

Author : Stawomir Zdziebko

Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Page : 250 pages

File Size : 17,20 MB

Release : 2011-10-18

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1443834785

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This book primarily provides a detailed description and interpretation of one of the most fascinating and poorly understood processes in English accentology, i.e. Aitken’s Law, also known as the Scottish Vowel Length Rule by which vowel quantity in Scottish English is fully predictable, as opposed to the other regional accents of English speakers. The research also contributes to the understanding of the working of long-short vowel distinctions in the languages of the world and argues that all phenomena observed in connection with the presence and absence vowel quantity contrasts are a direct consequence of the working of a relatively small set of universal and inviolable principles of grammar.



Atlas of the World's Languages

Author : R.E. Asher

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 1009 pages

File Size : 47,84 MB

Release : 2018-04-19

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 1317851080

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Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.



Studies in Linguistic Geography

Author : John M. Kirk

Publisher :

Page : 216 pages

File Size : 27,51 MB

Release : 1985

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN :

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The essays in this volume describe some of the problems that bedevil the study of dialect and the methodological solutions employed to minimize them. They also survey the contributions that linguistic cartography can make to the study of English and the of language in general.



The Brus

Author : John Barbour

Publisher :

Page : 590 pages

File Size : 49,35 MB

Release : 1856

Category : Epic poetry, Scottish

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