Aproximación al vocalismo tónico del dialecto de Lancashire a la luz de su representación ortográfi ca en la literatura inglesa del siglo XVII
ISSN: 1134-8941
Year of publication: 2009
Issue: 18
Pages: 969-979
Type: Article
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Abstract
This paper addresses the need of retrieving information from a period which has been traditionally neglected and poorly researched in terms of dialect variation. A corpus of deviant spellings intended to suggest Lancashire regional pronunciations has been collected from two comedies - Thomas Heywood and Richard Brome's The Late Lancashire Witches (1634); and Thomas Shadwell's The Lancashire Witches (1682) - and a fiction piece - Richard Brathwaite's The Two Lancashire Lovers (1640). Its aims are twofold. First, to evaluate the phonological development of Middle English stressed phonemes in this northwestern English county. Second, to ascertain that some of these vocalic traits are also common to other adjacent counties.