.School of English

Language and Identity in the National Curriculum

List of Resources and Acknowledgements:

Professor Joan Beal and Dr. Chris Montgomery provided many helpful suggestions and vital additional resources as this scheme of work was devised.

Class 1:

• The British Library Sounds Familiar Website: http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/

Class 2:

• Chris Montgomery’s sound files:

Chris Montgomery is an academic who works on dialect perception. The sound files used in this exercise are taken from his PhD research, which was completed at the University of Sheffield in 2006.

Class 3:

• Chris Montgomery’s data on the attitudes of Northern speakers:

The data used for comparison in this class is taken from Montgomery’s PhD research, which was completed at the University of Sheffield in 2006.

Class 4:

• The data on the four main types of written forms available by the fourteenth century is adapted from:

Samuels, Michael Louis (1963) “Some applications of Middle English dialectology”. English Studies 44: 81-94.

Class 5:

• Useful information on the Survey of English Dialects can be found here: http://www.yorkshiredialect.com/SED.htm
• Photographs from the Survey of English Dialects project can be found here: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/activities/lavc/images2.htm
• The term NORM is taken from:

Chambers, J.K. and Peter Trudgill (1998) Dialectology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• The map of SED locations is taken from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=10810642
• Interview data from the SED is available at the British Library’s Archival Sound Recordings website, in the Accents and Dialects section:  http://sounds.bl.uk/Browse.aspx?collection=AccentsAndDialects. You can search this archive for locations and listen to sound recordings of speakers from all over Britain. Recordings dated in the 1950s and 1960s are from the SED. Recordings in the 1990s are from the Millennium Memory Bank project (conducted to provide a comparison with the SED recordings). The recording used in this class is found here: http://sounds.bl.uk/View.aspx?item=021M-C0908X0027XX-0200V0.xml.

Class 6:

• Thanks to Joan Beal for collating the maps in this class.
• Maps 1-2 on the class handout are taken from:

Orton, Harold, S. Sanderson and J.D.A. Widdowson (1978) The Linguistic Atlas of England. London: Croom Helm.

• Maps 3-4 on the class handout are taken from: Trudgill, Peter (1999) The Dialects of England. Oxford: Blackwell.
• The map of the Danelaw is taken from Barber, Charles, Beal, Joan C. and Shaw, Philip (2009) The English Language. A Historical Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 139.

Class 7:

• The blank map and the map of North/South divides was provided by Chris Montgomery.
• The British Library Sounds Familiar? website’s map of ‘a’ can be found here:  http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/regional-voices/phonological-variation/

Class 8:

• The Martha’s Vineyard study is reported here: Labov, William (1963) “The Social Motivation of a Sound Change.” Word 19: 273-309. [Also available as a chapter in this book: Labov, William (1972) Sociolinguistic Patterns. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.]

 Class 9:

• Carmen Llamas’ work is reported here: Llamas, Carmen (2007) “‘A place between places’: language and identities in a border town.” Language in Society 36(4): 579-604.
• The version of the questionnaire shown here is taken from: Beal, Joan (2006) Language and Region. London: Routledge; p.10.

Class 10:

• The sound recordings are taken from the BBC Voices website. This website was established to collect dialect information across the UK. It is a very useful site for finding recordings and several linguists have made contributions to it. The recordings used in this class can be found here: London (http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/individual/london-hackney-removed-jessica.shtml: you should use the one where Jessica is talking about words for ‘attractive’); and Salford (http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/group/gmr-salford.shtml: you should use Voice Clip 1).
• The maps on ‘th’-fronting are taken from Kerswill, Paul (2003) Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English. In D. Britain and J. Cheshire (eds.) Social dialectology. In honour of Peter Trudgill. Amsterdam: Benjamins. pp.223-243.
• The Guardian article is available here: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/guardian.htm

Class 12:

• The Observer’s Paradox is discussed here: Labov, William (1972) Sociolinguistic Patterns. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
• The information sheets and the consent forms are adapted from templates provided by the University of Sheffield’s Research Office.