This work is a reissue of the three volumes of the Linguistic
Atlas of Scotland, first published in 1975, 1977 and 1985
respectively. The volumes offer a thorough and comprehensive
dialectological study of Lowland Scotland, Orkney and Shetland,
Northern Ireland, Northumberland and Cumberland, providing a wealth
of word-geographical material and phonological findings assembled
over more than 20 years, alongside a detailed cartographic analysis
of Scottish dialects by the Linguistic Survey of Scotland.
Volumes 1 and 2 offer a comprehensive selection of
word-geographical material, offering the Scots equivalent of a
selection of English words, presented on a county by county
basis.
Volume 1 also includes an introduction which covers:
- the concept of linguistic geography and historical development
of linguistic reflection in Scotland in both the written and oral
tradition
- the new approach in Scottish phonetics and dialectology which
began in the second half of the nineteenth century
- the origins and approaches of the Linguistic Survey of
Scotland
- the role of the questionnaire in the creation the Linguistic
Atlas
- and a valuable and detailed introduction to the maps and lists
of word-geographical material which make up these two volumes.
Maps within this collection show:
- the physical structure of the Scots and Gaelic-speaking areas
covered
- The National grid and grid of Northern Ireland enabling the
reader to locate each informant
- population density of each region
Volume 3 presents the phonological investigation of Scots
dialect speech, providing the first large-scale presentation of a
phonological survey along functional lines, that is, by means of a
technique of contrasts and oppositions of the stressed vowels of
the recorded speech-sounds.
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