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J. MARSHALL<br />

6.5. Morphological Variable Chosen for the Experiment<br />

1) Preterite end<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong> /Mt/ are used where Standard English has /-t/, for<br />

example:<br />

kick ~ kickit<br />

pick ~ pickit<br />

This end<strong>in</strong>g (or its allomorphic variant [-t]) is used also where StE has a stem<br />

vowel change:<br />

catch ~ catchit<br />

tell ~ tellt<br />

sell ~ sellt<br />

ken ~ kent<br />

This is the only morphological variable used <strong>in</strong> the experiment, as it proved<br />

too difficult to reliably elicit variables <strong>of</strong> this type.<br />

6.6. Lexical Variables Chosen for the Experiment<br />

<strong>The</strong> list <strong>of</strong> lexical variables is given below. <strong>The</strong> speaker was required to give<br />

the equivalent English word, or a Doric sentence us<strong>in</strong>g the word correctly.<br />

Word Equivalent Word Equivalent<br />

1 m6k8l big/much/many 26 dwam Daze<br />

2 p6k8l few/small/little 27 daik Ditch/wall<br />

3 lun boy 28 t6p Ram<br />

4 kwa<strong>in</strong> girl 29 jauw Ewe<br />

5 blad damage 30 Aaip Fool<br />

6 tOav struggle 31 sark Shirt<br />

7 klap slam/hit 32 sp6rAM~dM sparrow<br />

8 duk swim 33 MlkM Every<br />

9 djuk duck 34 aneQ beneath<br />

10 ext bother/own/eight 35 ab<strong>in</strong> above<br />

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