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The Dialect of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne 27/08/2015 Northumbrian dialects When we think of Northumbrian dialect, we might first think of The dialect of the Holy Island of the language of the middle and southeast of the county Lindisfarne ‒ with its characteristic sounds in words such as snow , hand , coat , dog , pub , boots The Roland Bibby Memorial Lecture ‒ and verb forms such as cannit , divn’t The Northumbrian Language Society But as you all know, Northumberland is quite a diverse county Morpeth linguistically th 11 October 2014 ‒ the urban dialect of Tyneside ‒ the Pitmatic of the coalfields Warren Maguire, University of Edinburgh ‒ the Cumbrian-like speech of the southwest of the county [email protected] ‒ and North Northumbrian, where influence from Lowland Scotland is most obvious ( canna , dinna ) 793 AD 10 km Population: Her wæron reðe forebecna Eyemouth 162, less than half native cumene ofer Berwick Distance from the Border: Norðanhymbra land 7 þet Connected to the mainland by a folc earmlice bregdon: þet Scottish Holy Island Borders Lowick causeway at ‘low waiter’, wæron ormete ligræscas, 7 opened in 1955 wæron geseowene fyrene dracan on þam lyfte Industry: fleogende. Þam tacnum Thropton Traditionally fishing and farming, sona fyligde mycel hunger, nowadays mostly tourism, with 7 litel æfter þam þæs ilcan Northumberland some farming, lobster and crab geares on .vi. idus Ianuarii fishing earmlice heðenra manna Schools: One first school, now joined with hergung adiligode Godes Newcastle cyrican in Lindisfarenaee Lowick Middle and high school in þurh reaflac 7 mansleht. Berwick The 1971-3 recordings “The data consist of some fifty hours of tape- Reel-to-reel recordings of natives by Jörg Berger recordings,* of which • 24.5 hrs, 10 main speakers (3F, 7M), born 1893-1914 (the about two thirds are ‘older’ speakers), plus 1945M recordings made with usually one informant at a The recordings include: time … The remaining third contains recordings of • conversations: conversations between ‒ between Berger and Islander(s), or at least with Berger present ‒ sometimes several people at the same time, some recorded in the informants” (p. 20) pub, with lots of background, largely inaudible chatter “*The recordings were made in • discussions of local place-names (from a numbered map) the years 1971-1973 and are in • answers to dialect questionnaires (e.g. the Survey of the possession of the author.” English Dialects ) 1 27/08/2015 Other Holy Island recordings and DHIL Conversation types Two Millennium Memory Bank recordings (British Library): The speech in the recordings is of different types: • 1926M (30 years in London), 1965F • normal conversational speech ( C) • elicited speech – e.g. answers to dialect questionnaires, On-going data collection by WM where the intention was for the speakers to give their • 1945Mb (in 2006), 1947M, 1963F, 1967M (in 2013) broadest dialect forms (even if that wasn’t always the result) ( Q) Dialect of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne (DHIL) corpus (British • In my analysis of the data, I’ve kept these two kinds of Academy grant SG112357), 2012-2014 speech separate to see if there are differences between them • time-aligned orthographically transcriptions • hosted on the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English website (http://research.ncl.ac.uk/decte/dhil.htm) • accessed via a password-protected interface subject to completion of a user agreement form Berger’s speakers New speakers Speaker Occupation Source Types Speaker Occupation Source Types 1893F ‘Herring girl’ Berger Q and C 1926M* Merchant Navy, painter and decorator MMB C 1902F Shop keeper Berger Q and C 1945Mb Fisherman WM 2006 Q and C 1908F Housewife Berger C 1947M Fisherman, bus driver (on the Island) WM 2013 C 1903M Fisherman Berger Q and C 1963F* Hotelier WM 2013 C 1904M* Wireless operator Berger Q and C 1965F Priory attendant MMB C 1905M Various jobs locally Berger Q and C 1967M* Navy, publican WM 2013 C 1906M Fisherman Berger C The ‘younger’ speakers have very different life histories 1908M Driver Berger Q and C • they went to middle and high school in Berwick (where they 1910M* Fisherman, lifeboat man Berger Q and C boarded through the week) 1914M* Various, inc. Navy Berger Q • they may have gone to college further away again 1945Ma Fisherman Berger Q and C • often worked away from the Island for substantial periods ‘Older’ speaker sample in red; speakers marked * had higher status • usually employed in the tourism and hospitality industry jobs, typically involving time and training away from the Island Int. And this is? 1905M: I've seen it, [when we] used to 1945M: You dinna put any boxes upside 1965F : Yeah, i t’s a lovely place for 1893F The door. keep the articles here. You know what down in the boat. B-, when you put your children to grow up. I know there’s no t Int. And, and, and the thing at the them things is, George? Well, I'm going empty boxes in they’ve got to be the a lo t of facili ties bu t they’re not far door? to tell you. Now, there's an art, there's right way up. That used to be an old away and Berwick’s just easy to nip to. 1893F That’s the handle, isn’t it, or an art, uh, uh, uh, [you know] preparing man’s, an old man’s super-. If the box is There’s swimming pools and all those the -, aye, that’s the handle. them first and cutting their throat. upside down some of them would go kinds of facili ties. They go to nurseries Int. Uh-huh. And on the other side, Now, if they didn't bleed right, you home again. If the box is upside down on, if they want to in Berwick. They you know? These things, there. buggers, they would never cure. You how the hell can you put anything in it? migh t actually star t a nursery up here if 1893F - The jambs of the door? Is couldn't, they would never cure right. Everything’s going to fall out . So that was there’s more children. But, yeah, when that, do you mean the round 1906M: Keep a woman out the road. a superstition. Another one. If possible we were small, there’s a beach as you about - 1905M: Well, there's something in that get away from your moorings without come on to the Island called the Chare Int. No, uh, these? and all. I dinna know w-, whether that's going backwards. You know? You’ve got Ends. And everyone, even my dad, my 1893F Oh, that’s the hinges. an old saying or no. to go ahead if you can . It’s no use going granny used to take my dad there when Int. Hinges? 1906M: No, it's quite perfectly true. astern . You know? That’s no bloody use. they were li tt le. Every day in the 1893F Hinges. 1905M: It might be right. But, uh, uh, [I Whistling. No allowed to whistle in the summer holidays if i t was fine, Int. And this is? know] we used to keep them and I boat. My father would, what, he would everybody took their children ou t there 1893F Tha-, that’s the surroundings. knew perfectly well as soon as they was bloody kill me for, “Do you no think and they all used to si t righ t along this Int. Surroundings? killed and their throat was cut, if they there’s enough wind ?”. Aye. “ Without beach with all the prams and push- 1893F Surroundings. didna bleed right, they would never blowing any more ?”. chairs and everything. Int. Oh. Beautiful. cure right. Couldna cure them right. 1893F Ye couldn’t understand we. 2 27/08/2015 Notable pronunciation features Analysing of variation and change in the dialect • cow , how , now , etc. with a diphthong (i.e. not coo , hoo , noo ) My research (so far) concentrates on understanding variation ‒ also shoe and two and change in the pronunciation of Holy Island dialect • knee , see , tea with a diphthong ( kney , sey , tey ) How does it vary? • final -y as a diphthong, e.g. happy (happey ), jetty (jittey ), • between speakers twenty (twuntey ) • between different kinds of speech • short ‘u’ like Scots ( but , good ) • between different social groups • ‘aw’, not ‘aa’ in blow , know , snow ; hand , man • no ‘Northumbrian fronting’ in coat , hole ; dog , on How is it changing? • ‘yi’ in words like boots , enough , soot • its origins • ‘yu’ in hook , tough • differences between broad and less broad speakers • And of course the Northumbrian Burr, often retained after • differences between older and younger speakers vowels before consonants, e.g. bird , turn , work The features The Survey of English Dialects data I’ve so far analysed four characteristic features of the dialect: The ground-breaking Survey of English Dialects by Harold Orton and Eugen Dieth surveyed the traditional rural dialects of England 1) The pronunciation of R in the 1950s • is it the Burr, Scottish tap/trill, or English (and Standard) R? They gathered data at nine locations in Northumberland, the 2) The MOUTH vowel nearest one to Holy Island (and the most northerly one in the • is it a monophthong ‘oo’ or a diphthong ‘ow’? survey) being Lowick • 3) Negation of verbs, e.g. can’t/canna , don’t/dinna large collections of phonetic transcriptions of answers to their dialect questionnaire • is negation of an ‘English’ or a ‘Scots’ type? • short audio recording 4) The word used for affirmation In my analysis, I’ve compared the data for Lowick with the Holy • is it aye or yes (or yeah )? Island data where possible R pronunciation R results The traditional pronunciation of R in Northumberland is of 100 course the Burr • Uvular [ʁ] 80 • SED Lowick has 100% uvular R 60 Påhlsson (1972: 222), Thropton: • “the Burr seems to be faced with fairly bleak prospects for % Uvular R 40 C the future, although it constitutes a prominent and Q vigorous feature of the dialect of the community at 20 present” 0 Beal et al.
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