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Description: | Wayne recalls as a teenager recognising the first signs of his deteriorating sight as a result of a brain tumour.
lexis
cause = because
phonology
rhoticity; T-glottaling; L-vocalisation; occasional TH-fronting (either [VIv@`] and through [fr/u:])
MOUTH [aU > a:U]; PRICE [OI > VI]; START [a`: ~ A`;]; NORTH [O`: ~ O:U]; THOUGHT [O:U]; NURSE [@`:]; TRAP [{]; BATH [a:]; lettER [@`]
note also wasn’t [wQd=n], properly [pr/Qpli], started [sta`:?Id], hitting [hI?In], houses [haUsIz], nearly [n@`:li], noticed [n@U?Ist], (be)cause [bIkVz ~ kVs], little [lI?o], bottle [bQ?=L/], getting [gE?In], anything [EnITINk] and can’t [ka:nt]
grammar
multiple negation (I didn’t take no notice initially; there were some houses that didn’t have no front garden; I didn’t know at that time what brain tumours were or nothing)
preterite become (riding a bike become a problem)
zero plural marker on noun (about six foot to about two foot)
double subjunctive on conditional clause (if I’d’ve hit that then, knowing what I know now, I’d’ve gone over the handlebars = if I’d hit that then)
preterite sunk (that’s when it really sunk in that I had problems) | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | BBC | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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