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Dialect literature: A two-way street?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

H. Rex Wilson
H. Rex Wilson*
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University of Western Ontario
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In a review of Dobson’s English Pronunciation 1500-1700, Helge Kökeritz (1961) listed the resources which he felt should be fully exploited before a comprehensive study of the development of modern English pronunciation could be attempted. They were: “major and minor orthoepists between 1550 and 1850; spellings in private documents between 1400 and 1800; rimes of all the poets between 1450 and 1750, as well as their stress patterns, with special emphasis on the rimes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; and homonymie puns, mainly in the drama of these two centuries.”

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , Fall 1973 , pp. 157 - 162
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1973

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