Southern England

Director:
Guy Lowman.

Status of work:
Field work completed in 1937-1938, paper records.

Areas covered:
Counties in the East Midlands, East Anglia, the Southeast, the Southwest, Devonshire, West Midlands, West Central areas.

Subjects:
59 speakers, all "folk" speakers.

Nature of recordings:
Based on a 104 page questionnaire in the Linguistic Atlas format.

Archives:
Original materials are archived in the Special Collections repository of the Library, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602. For access to original materials, contact the Linguistic Atlas Project office.

Selected bibliography:

Kurath, Hans and Guy Lowman, Jr. 1970. The Dialect Structure of Southern England: Phonological Evidence. Publications of the American Dialect Society.

Viereck, Wolfgang. 1975. Lexicalische und grammatische Ergebnisse des Lowman-Survey von Mittl- und Südengland. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag.

Shackleton, Robert G., Jr.  2010. Quantitative Assessment of English-American Speech Relationships. Dissertation, University of Groningen.

Atlas Projects

     LAGS

     DASS

      LAMSAS

      LANCS

      LANE

      LAO

      LAPNW

      LAPC      

      LAWS (LARMS)

      LAUM

      Roswell Voices

      Augusta

      ATLSP

      GDS

      Gullah

      SKNP

     Southern England

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