![]() ![]() Several conclusions have been reached, including the /æ/ phoneme as an indicator of a northern dialect, the usage of the velar nasal plus cluster, as well as the pronunciation of continuous forms and past tense irregularities. The analysis is focused on three facets of the dialectal variation surrounding the county of Nottinghamshire, namely relating to the linguistic levels of phonology, morphosyntax and lexis. The corpus consists of oral texts, which have been transcribed, from a TV show set in the area. For the purpose, a personalised corpus of approximately 26,000 words has been compiled. This paper is concerned with the study of the specific subdialect of Nottinghamshire, known as ‘Notts’ or ‘Nottinghamese’, and aims at describing its linguistic features. ![]() Rural dialects are slowly disappearing and giving way to larger, more generalised ways of speaking (Trudgill 2004 Kortmann 2008 Beal 2010 Braber 2015).
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