Hello. My name is Norman Foldvari, I am an English major student at Debrecen University, Hungary. I am graduating this year and I am doing a little research on my own for which I would like to ask your help. I am writing my dissertation about English dialects and for this topic I have made a questionnaire.
I hope you will support me in this task, I would be very grateful for any kind of help. Now let's see what is this form about.
 
The form has 3 sections.

In the first one you can find a list of words. These words are common words, the interesting thing is with their pronunciation. For these words I presented two kinds of pronunciation in two columns: Received Pronunciation and a pronunciation typical for a certain dialect. The task would be to fill in the blank column, where you should indicate that according to you which dialect the given word belongs to. If you cannot recognize the dialect just skip the word. I do not expect from you to identify all of them, rather just the words that belong to your dialect. But if you have any guesses please do not hesitate to indicate it. Besides, I would like to know another thing in connection with the words as well. This is the following (please indicate it in the blank column, too):

- Which pronunciation do you use? (RP= similar/closer to Received Pronunciation; D= similar/closer to dialectal pronunciation)

In the second section you can find a list of words typical in certain dialects. Please indicate the dialect you think the word belongs to, whether you use it (U) or not (N) and write the meaning as well (I wrote the meaning of certain words in advance to avoid confusion). Naturally, you can make your guesses (about the dialect) in the case of words that do not belong to yours.

In the third section you will find grammatical features with a very short explanation. The task is the same: identify the dialect (guess where you feel), and indicate whether you use them (U) or not (N).

This is the sructure and content of my questionnaire. I hope I managed to write down the instructions clearly. If anything is ambiguous, please ask me.

- If you are ready, please send the filled out doc file to my email address: normika@gmail.com
- Please indicate the town where you live (e.g Yorkshire, Nottingham, etc); your sex (male/female); your age; your profession. This is very important for me, because I have to analyse the data from a sociolinguistic point of view as well. Of course, if you find any of my requests insulting or indiscreet, please ignore it.

IMPORTANT:

1. You have to have the Arial Unicode MS font type installed on your computer in order to properly see the IPA symbols. This font type is usually at present on computers with Word. If you do not have it do not worry: I also attach a pdf version of the document. If you cannot see the symbols in Word, please see the pdf for the pronunciation. As you cannot edit it, please fill in the Word form.

Here are the links for the two files:

http://worldshots.uw.hu/normi/survey.doc

http://worldshots.uw.hu/normi/survey.pdf

2. This questionnaire only deals with the dialects of England (because it would be too long to deal with other versions of English: for example American, Australian, Cornish, Welsh, Scottish English). Thus in the first place I expect those to take part who live in this area.

Finally, I would like to thank for everyone in advance, who takes the time and helps me in my little research, either with filling in the form or suggesting some kind of improvement in connection with it.

Thank you very much,

Norman Foldvari