Subject: dialectal variation

harold orton centenary conference : dialectal variation in english school of english university of leeds leeds ls2 9jt uk march 24-26 1998 third circular : program ( me ) tuesday , 24 march 14 . 00 - 14 . 45 registration and coffee at devonshire hall 14 . 45 - 15 . 00 welcome 15 . 00 - 16 . 00 plenary lawrence m davis , charles l houck & veronika horv \ 225th . the east - west new england dialect boundary : another look at the evidence . 16 . 00 - 16 . 30 tea break 16 . 30 - 18 . 00 parallel sessions a nineteenth century dialectology manfred g \ 246rlach . attitudes towards bre dialects in the 19th century . graham shorrocks . an assessment of the development and achievements of british english dialectology in the c19 . bernard jones . barnes and the english dialect society . b regional dialectology 1 kurt rydland . front rounded vowels in traditional northumbrian english : the evidence of the orton corpus . peter wright . earliest days of the survey : its lancashire investigations through dr . fritz rohrer of the university of zurich . mark j jones . the phonology of definite article reduction . 18 . 15 visit to brotherton library , for exhibition , and reception sponsored by routledge 19 . 30 return to devonshire hall dinner , & talk : stanley ellis . reminiscences of the harold orton and the sed wednesday , 25 march 09 . 00 - 10 . 30 parallel sessions a lexicology anna - oksana lozynska . on some problems of decoding polysemantic elements of authentic text . uliana potiantynyk . evolution of slang in the last decades of the 20th century . natalia klimenko . linguistic aspect of adoption of english borrowing ( neologisms ) in the russian language . b social approaches 1 dominic watt . the nurse and north sets in tyneside english . jenny cheshire , annie gillett & ann williams . new dialects for old ? change and continuity in urban british english . sali tagliamonte . synchrony and diachrony in an english dialect . 10 . 30 - 11 . 00 coffee break 11 . 00 - 12 . 00 plenary william elmer . computer capture of the sed basic material . 12 . 00 - 13 . 00 parallel sessions a historical dialectology 1 jeremy smith . prolegomena to a new history of middle english spelling : dialectal variation and communicative function . robert stockwell & donka minkova . explanations of sound change : the intersection between dialect data and phonetic ' naturalness ' . b social approaches 2 paul foulkes & gerry docherty . variation in the realisation of glottal in tyneside english . kimberley farrar , esther grabe & francis nolan . english intonation in the british isles . 13 . 00 - 14 . 00 lunch 14 . 00 - 15 . 30 parallel sessions a social approaches 3 c macafee . scots language attitudes and language maintenance . jane stuart - smith . t - glottalling in glaswegian . jennifer smith . ' but they never tells you that in the paper ' : grammatical variation in a scottish dialect . b dialect in literature joan beal . popular literature in tyneside english : from geordie ridley to viz . rory mcturk . where have all the dialects gone ? some problems of literary translation from english into icelandic . hans sauer . literary representations of modern scottish english . 15 . 30 - 16 . 00 tea break 16 . 00 - 17 . 30 parallel sessions a social approaches 4 sandrine dalban . supra - local forms and gender identity : a study of tyneside adolescents . louise cunningham . gender and dialects : issues of social change . lyndsay jarvis . measuring the decline of scots vocabulary b regional dialectology 2 heinrich ramisch . the definite article in northern english dialects . gunnel melchers . ' brittly , cassen , splay-feeted ' . derivational morphology in regional dialects . 17 . 00 - 18 . 00 guillaume schiltz . workshop on dialectometry . 18 . 00 - 19 . 00 reception , talk and readings the novelist and script-writer barry hines . ( yorkshire & humberside arts ) 19 . 45 for 20 . 00 reception and conference dinner . music by o'contraire . thursday , 26 march 09 . 00 - 10 . 00 plenary william a kretzschmar jr . the future of dialectology . 10 . 00 - 11 . 00 parallel sessions a ongoing leeds projects jussi klemola & mark jones . the leeds corpus of english dialects project , clive upton & carmen llamas . the first sure moves : early steps towards a large dialect project b international perspectives elvira myachinskaya & yuri kleiner . english dialectology in leningrad - st petersburg , russia chris jeffrey . english in south africa 11 . 00 - 11 . 30 coffee break 11 . 30 - 13 . 00 parallel sessions a historical dialectology 2 derek a britton . richard brome and lancashire dialect of the seventeenth century . anette rosenbach & letizia vezzosi . was the s-genitive a traveller through england ? merja black . parellel lines through time ? written and spoken variation in english dialects . b regional dialectology 3 arnold kellett . bridging the dialect gap . john widdowson . lexical erosion in english regional dialects . alan v murray . ' you can't wesist my chawisma ' : sociolinguistic aspects of / r / variation in dialects of british english 12 . 00 - 13 . 00 lunch and farewell pm optional excursion to ilkley and its moor ( payment extra ) , if there is sufficient demand , . harold orton centenary conference march 24-26 1998 registration details 1998 sees the centenary of the birth of harold orton , co-founder of the survey of english dialects , and the half-centenary of the survey itself . the conference aims to take stock of the research achievements in dialectology to date ; to address current issues in diachronic and synchronic variation in english , from the perspectives of dialectology , socio-linguistics ; corpus-based linguistics ; stylistics , literary dialect study , and other related fields ; and to look forward to research projects for the new millennium . the conference organisers also wish to bring together colleagues and young scholars working on linguistic variation in english from all over the world . a selection of papers will be published in the leeds studies in english . offers of ' work in progress ' reports or project details ( as poster sessions ) , workshops , , etc . are still welcome . please send any titles as soon as possible to dr clive upton < clive @ sed . prestel . co . uk > or < c . s . upton @ leeds . ac . uk > ; or c / o school of english , university of leeds . during the conference : there will be a special exhibition of sed materials , etc and regional writers in the special collections section of the brotherton library . other archive materials , from the sed and former institute of folk life studies housed in the school of english can be made available for consultation . there will also be exhibitions and book and dialect society displays , poster sessions , on site . a lunch-time finish allows people to go on to the sociolinguistics symposium 12 at the institute of education ( mid-day 26 march to saturday 28 march ) , organised by euan reid . in timetabling the papers , we have endeavoured to accommodate this event . location of conference and registration . the conference is being held in the university 's devonshire hall , which is set in its own ' cloistered ' grounds just 10 / 15 minute walk north of the main campus across woodhouse moor , and off the road to headingley ( otley road ) there are frequent bus services to the campus and city , just 10 / 15 minutes away . there is a lounge bar , squash court , launderette , billiards and snooker rooms , and dance area . all study bedrooms have wash handbasins , and tea and coffee making facilities . there is on-street car parking near the main gates . registration and welcome on tuesday 24 march from 2 . 00 p . m . onwards . leeds is a vibrant , cosmopolitan city , full of markets , malls , galleries and caf \ 233s . the university of leeds is one of the largest in the uk . the mainline station is only one mile from the university , and has full intercity connections . there is an hourly train link with london ( journey time between 2 hours and 2 and a half hours ) . the m1 / m62 reaches into the city centre . the leeds / bradford airport 6 miles away serves the uk and europe , with british midland shuttles to london , amsterdam and paris . there is also an excellent rail link between leeds and manchester airport . optional excursion : to ilkley & its moor ( singing obligatory ) . costs : the full residential package includes conference fee ; 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