Abstract
In the 17th century, the English region of East Anglia contained many of the major population centres of the British Isles, not least Norwich, England’s second city at that time. One might therefore predict that East Anglian dialects of English would have played a major role in determining the nature of the new colonial Englishes which were first beginning to emerge during this period. This paper considers some of the phonological and grammatical features of East Anglian English which can be argued to have been influential in this way.
References
Avis, Walter S. 1961. The “New England short o”: A recessive phoneme. Language 37(4): 544–559. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/411356
Ayres, Harry M. 1933. Bermudian English. American Speech 8(1): 3–10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3181810
Bailey, Beryl L. 1965. Toward a new perspective in Negro English dialectology. American Speech 40(3): 171–177. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/454064
Burling, Robbins. 1973. English in black and white. Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
Clarke, Sandra. 2010. Newfoundland and Labrador English. Edinburgh University Press.
DARE = Cassidy, Frederic G. & Joan Houston Hall (eds.). 1999. Dictionary of American regional English. Vol. II: D-H. Belknap Press.
Davidson, William V. 1974. Historical geography of the Bay Islands, Honduras: Anglo-Hispanic conflict in the Western Caribbean. Southern University Press.
Dillard, J. L. 1970. Principles in the history of American English: Paradox, virginity, cafeteria. Florida FL Reporter 7: 32–33.
Dillard, J. L. 1972. Black English. Its history and usage in the United States. Random House.
Fasold, Ralph. 1972. Tense-marking in Black English. A linguistic and social analysis. Center for Applied Linguistics.
Ferragne, Emmanuel & François Pellegrino. 2007. An acoustic description of the monophthongs of East Anglia. In Jürgen Trouvain (ed.), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Universität des Saarlandes. 1513–1516.
Forby, Robert 1830. The vocabulary of East Anglia. London: Nichols.
Francis, W. Nelson. 1959. Some dialect isoglosses in England. American Speech 34(4): 243–250. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/453702
Hammarström, Göran. 1980. Australian English: Its origin and status. Buske.
Hoskins, William G. & David Hey. 1984. Local history in England. Longman.
Johnson, Caleb. 2006. The Mayflower and her passengers. Xlibris.
Jordan, Richard. 1975. Handbook of Middle English grammar: Phonology (translated by Eugene J. Crook.). Mouton. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110879414
Kurath, Hans. 1928. The origin of the dialectal differences in spoken American English. Modern Philology 25(4): 385–395. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/387724
Kurath, Hans. 1964. British sources of selected features of American pronunciation: problems and methods. In David Abercrombie, Dennis Fry & P. MacCarthy (eds.), In honour of Daniel Jones, Longman. 146–155.
Kurath, Hans. 1965. Some aspects of Atlantic seaboard English considered in their connection with British English. In Sever Pop (ed.), Communications et rapports du Premier Congrès International de Dialectologie Générale, Centre International de Ddialectologie Générale. 236–240.
Kurath, Hans & Raven I. McDavid, Jr. 1961. The pronunciation of English in the Atlantic states. University of Michigan Press.
McDavid, Raven I., Jr. 1955. The position of the Charleston dialect. Publications of the American Dialect Society 23(1): 35–49. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-23-1-35
McDavid, Raven I., Jr. 1968. Variations in Standard American English. Elementary English 45(5): 561–564, 608.
Schiering, René. 2005. Cliticisation and the evolution of morphology: A cross-linguistic study on phonology in grammaticalisation. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Konstanz.
Schiering, René. 2010. Reconsidering erosion in grammaticalisation: Evidence from cliticisation. In Katerina Stathi, Elke Gehweiler & Ekkehard König (eds.), Grammaticalisation: Current views and issues, Benjamins. 73–100. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.119.06sch
Trudgill, Peter. 1986. Dialects in contact. Blackwell.
Trudgill, Peter. 2004. New-dialect formation: The inevitability of colonial Englishes. Edinburgh University Press.
Trudgill, Peter. 2017. The spread of English. In Markku Filppula, Devyani Sharma & Juhani Klemola (eds.), The Oxford handbook of World Englishes, Oxford University Press, 14–34. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199777716.013.002
Trudgill, Peter. 2018. I’ll git the milk time you bile the kittle do you oon’t get no tea yit no coffee more oon’t I: Phonetic erosion and grammaticalisation in East Anglian conjunction-formation. In Laura Wright (ed.), Southern English varieties then and now, de Gruyter. 132–147. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110577549-006
Trudgill, Peter. 2019. Bermudian English as a North American dialect: A note on the segmental phonology. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330180330
Trudgill, Peter, Daniel Schreier, Daniel Long & Jeffrey P. Williams. 2003. On the reversibility of mergers: /w/, /v/ and evidence from lesser-known Englishes. Folia Linguistica Historica 24: 23–46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/flih.2003.24.1-2.23
Tynch, Milton. 1994. Analysis of the verb system of the AAVE of Edenton, North Carolina. Unpublished paper, Department of English, North Carolina State University.
Wells, John C. 1982. Accents of English. Cambridge University Press.
Wright, Joseph. 1905. The English dialect grammar. Froude.