History of linguistics + Dictionaries

Question 1

Dialect geography

Answer 1

• it started as trying to find dying-out forms that could shed some ligh on general principles of language change
• focus on NORMs (non-mobile, old, rural males)
• findings: : a hotchpotch of forms, a chaotic mass that was explained away as free variation that could not be understood

Question 2

in 1950s-1960s bew nethodogical approach

Answer 2

• representative sample of respondants
• other methods of data gathering (to overcome the observer’s paraqdox)
• new technology (tape-recording)
• classsification of respondents
• the concept of linguistic variable

Question 3

Linguistic variable

Answer 3

• the hotchpotch of forms (variants) is not free at
• it is context-dependent and both observable and analysable
• in other words, language variation is structured

Question 4

Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (LPD)

Answer 4

• J C Wells
• 3rd edition, 2008

Question 5

Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary (CEPD)

Answer 5

• Daniel Jones, Peter Roach
• 18th edition, 2011
• The RP label is dropped in favour of BBC English

Question 6

Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English (RDP)

Answer 6

• Clive Upton, William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.
• 2nd edition; 2017
• 1st edition Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English