So glad this has been useful for people!
With regard to Angus' specific query below about contrasting opinions of the Ellis
volume, I looked into these viewpoints as part of my PhD work, so I may as well
simply extend my shameless plug and point you back to the thesis itself:
http://academia.edu/187910/. The discussion of Ellis (and the SED) was mostly in
sections 2.1.2 and 2.1.3 of the thesis (starting on page 26). To make things simpler,
here are the full references for the various quotes I gave there of people's comments
on his methodology:
Britain, D. (2008). ‘When is a change not a change? A case study on the dialect
origins of New Zealand English’. Language Variation and Change, 20(2): 187-223.
Dieth, E. (1946). ‘A new survey of English dialects’. Essays and Studies by Members
of the English Association, 32: 74-104.
Jones, C. (2006). English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Jones, M.J. (2002). ‘The origin of Definite Article Reduction in northern English
dialects: evidence from dialect allomorphy’. English Language and Linguistics, 6(2):
325-45.
Wakelin, M. (1977). English Dialects: An Introduction. London: Athlone Press.
I do make a few points of my own as well, so if you'd like to cite the thesis itself
you could use:
Sayers, D. (2009). Reversing Babel: Declining linguistic diversity and the flawed
attempts to protect it. PhD Dissertation: University of Essex.
http://academia.edu/187910/.
Also, Roger Lass previously expressed concern about searchability. I can confirm that
these are indeed searchable. The PDF I downloaded from
http://archive.org/details/onearlyenglishpr00elliuoft is luxuriously high quality too.
Dave
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Visiting Lecturer (2013-14), Dept English, University of Turku, Finland
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On 11/07/2013 02:11, VAR-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Subject:
> Re: AJ Ellis 'On Early English Pronunciation' Part V online
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> Date:
> 10/07/2013 17:14
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> I also wanted to say thanks for posting this! Dave, do you have references for these
> criticisms?
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