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Description: | The unidentified speaker recalls the traditional farming methods of his youth and explains how he spent several years working for the council after being unemployed for a period in the 1930s. Some of the interviewer’s questions appear to have been edited out of the original recording, so the passage might seem a little disjointed.
lexis
swath = row of mown grass; swath-turner = machine used for turning over swaths of hay; horse-rake = horse-drawn rake used to collect scattered hay or corn; dole = unemployment benefit
phonology
H-dropping; + V ® [4]; occasional rhoticity
START [a:]; GOAT [o:]; FACE [e:]; NURSE [@`: > @:]; STRUT [U]
® [TINk]; ® [}:k]
note also by [bI], swath [swaT], potatoes [p@te:t@z] and us [@s]
grammar
zero preposition (a lot different _ what it is today)
order of adverb phrases (I started three days a week on the roads = I started on the roads for three days a week; I was about twenty years on that = I was on that for about twenty years)
preterite come (that depression come)
relative pronoun ® at (there was a man at used to be working with us)
perfect for perfect progressive (I’ve retired now thirteen years = I’ve been retired now for thirteen years)
zero for + time phrase (I’ve retired now_ thirteen years)
note use and phonetic quality of utterance final discourse marker you know [j@ no:] | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | University of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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