Title: Mulbarton, Norfolk (cf. SED Ashwellthorpe) Shelfmark: C900/11537 Description: Bryan describes the changes he has witnessed in the last sixty years in Mulbarton and talks about people’s over- dependence on the car as a means of transport. Wymondham is a town just to the west of Mulbarton, Norwich a city just to the north and Swainsthorpe a village just to the east. Lexis: hurdle = fence used for sheep pens; broach = peg used to fasten thatch onto stack; pea-stick = stake or stick upon which pea-plant is trained; cause = because; push-bike = bicycle Phonology: occasional H-dropping; T-glottaling; to + infinitive ® [?] (used [?] be able to leave your home undone for a month); to + place-name ® [?] (that was only a few pence to go [?@] Norwich); glottal reinforcement of /k/ (think [TIN?k] of, local [lUu?k=L/], muck [mV?k] in, to Norwich and back [b{?k] again, walking [wO:?k@n] and walk [wO:?k] out of the door) and of /p/ (population [pQ?pj@le:S@n], up [V?p] in the woods, people [pIi?p=L/] and down the shop [SA?p] and back) PRICE [VI ~ AI]; GOAT [Uu > U]; START [a:]; MOUTH [{}]; FLEECE [Ii]; GOOSE [}:]; NEAR [E:]; FACE [{I > e:]; TRAP [{]; LOT [A ~ Q]; STRUT [V]; BATH [a: ~ A:] note also few [f}:], horse [hQs], thirty [T@:?i], road [r/Ud], garage [g{r/IdZ], one [w@n ~ wOn], post office [pUst O:f@s], new and knew [n}:], sort of outsiders [sO:?@r/ {}tsVId@z], (be)cause [bIk@z ~ kOs], home [Um], morning [mO:n@n], during [d}r/In], something [sVT@n], father [fa:D@], cutting [kV?@n], broachES [br/o:tS@z], wouldn’t [wUnt], together [?@gED@], can’t [ka:nt], Mulbarton [mVL/ba:?=n], service [s@:v@s], plenty [plEn?i], busES [bVs@z], want to [wQn?@], most [mUst] and footpaths [fUtpa:Dz] Grammar: neuter subject pronoun ® that (that’s now 3,500; now that’s lorries and cars; that ain’t the same as it used to be but that is still there; I should imagine it was quite hard work as well? – That was, yeah; that was a good bus service; that was cheap; that was only a few pence to go to Norwich; that ain’t really necessary for people every two minutes to get in the car and go down the shop and back) there is + plural complement (there’s all various estates what’ve been built in the last thirty-odd years; now there’s three different estates) relative pronoun ® what (there’s all various estates what’ve been built in the last thirty-odd years) preterite come (a new village hall which come in about ten years ago) Page 1 of 2 third person singular + negative particle ® ain’t (that ain’t [Int] the same as it used to be; that ain’t [Int] really necessary for people every two minutes to get in the car and go down the shop and back) determiner, those ® them (in them days) preterite see (used to get right up to where The Maid Marian is before you see any houses from Harford Bridges) zero auxiliary (they _ got plenty of buses and that) zero plural marker on noun (only fifty year ago) of + pronoun ® on (there’s far too much on it) Page 2 of 2 .