303 Old and Middle English Language and Historical Linguistics the Early Modern period, but there are strong indications that he was writing about Essex rather than Norfolk and Suffolk. We can say that for several centuries initial-fricative voicing was a feature which was absent from Norfolk but which became increasingly frequent as one travelled south through Suffolk and Essex towards the Thames. We may doubt, however, whether this is sufficient reason to do away with East Anglia as a Middle English dialect region and to separate the two East Anglian counties in this way. Even Kristensson himself concedes that the evidence for f-voicing in Suffolk is sporadic (cf. Map 2.7). Kristensson also cites the fact that Norfolk, in the first half of the 14th century, provided a large number of spellings with qu- and qw- for original hw-, which was not the case for Suffolk. As we have already seen, however, this was a temporary state of affairs, as the /kw-/ innovation was spreading eastwards and southwards out of northwest Norfolk. Jacek Fisiak (2001) was surely correct when he argued that East Anglia was a dialect area in its own right. References Beadle, Richard (1977) The Medieval Drama of East Anglia: Studies in Dialect, Documentary Records and Stagecraft. (PhD dissertation). York, UK: University of York. Dobson, Eric (1968) English Pronunciation 1500–1700. Vol 2. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. Ekwall, Eilert (1917) Contributions to the History of Old English Dialects. Lund, Sweden: Gleerup. Fisiak, Jacek (2001) “Old East Anglian: A Problem in Old English Dialectology.” [In:] Jacek Fisiak, Peter Trudgill (eds.) East Anglian English. Cambridge, UK: D. S. Brewer; 18–38. Gil, Alexander (1619) Logonomia Anglica. London, GB: Beale. Hines, John (2013) “The Origins of East Anglia in a North Sea Zone.” [In:] David Bates, Robert Liddiard (eds.) East Anglia and its North Sea World in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell; 16–43. Kristensson, Gillis (1995) A Survey of Middle English Dialects 1290–1350: The East Midland Counties. (Skrifter utgivna av Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund 88). Lund, Sweden: New Society of Letters. Kristensson, Gillis (2001) “Sociolects in Fourteenth-century London.” [In:] Jacek Fisiak, Peter Trudgill (eds.) East Anglian English. Cambridge, UK: D. S. Brewer; 71–78.
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