Yorkshire dialect

2. Location within England

3. Subdivisions

5. Consider:
“There are no really sharp dialect boundaries in England,
and dialects certainly do not coincide with counties.
There is really no such thing as an entirely separate,
self-contained dialect."

6. Some pronunciation features
Yorkshire speakers tend to have no contrast between / / /
ʊ
/
ʌ
It is common for the words like none, one, once, nothing,
with an o in the spelling to be pronounced with / / rather
ɒ
than the traditional / /.
ʊ
Words like city and many are pronounced with a final [ ]
ɪ
although in the Sheffield area, it is more likely to be [ ]
ɛ
In some areas, especially in the southern half of Yorkshire,
there is a tendency to pronounce the phoneme /a / (as in
ʊ
mouth) as a monophthong [a ], often represented as "ah",
ː

7. In West Riding dialect, the word right can also be pronounced
with the same [ee] as meet, similar to an RP pronunciation of
sweet.
A feature particular to Sheffield and the surrounding towns is
the disyllabic pronunciations of "no" and "nowt" as [ne: ] and
ɔʊ
[ne: t].
ɔʊ
In the West Riding , plural and past participle endings that are
pronounced / z/ and / d/ in RP may be pronounced with a
ɪ ɪ
schwa, / / (
ə
boxes can sound like boxers)
In the Barnsley area, there are some words where an /a/
becomes an /e/. For example, have is pronounced 'ev and
master and is pronounced mester.

8. Vocabulary and grammar
Definite article reduction: shortening of the to a form
without a vowel, often written t'. Down the pub is
pronounced downt pub.
The use of owt and nowt, derived from Middle English
aught and naught and mean anything and nothing.
Many contractions ending with n't are shortened to single-
syllable words, for example: dun't (doesn't), cun't
(couldn't), shun't (shouldn't), wun't (wouldn't)…
The word us is often used in place of me or in the place of
our (e.g. we should put us names on us property)

9. Some areas abbreviate I am not to I aren't rather than
the usual I'm not.
The word self may become sen, e.g. yourself becomes
thy sen, tha sen.
Remnants from the Vikings include the verb laik, to
play. The younger generation tend to abbreviate this
to lek, however
The use of now then, sometimes pronounced nah then
as a greeting.

10. TV and Culture

11. Ted Hughes

12. Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB3ieNhEsDY