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Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 25, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History
Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 25, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History
Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter
The 25th anniversary meeting of the Northeast Folklore Society, held 13 August 1983, at the University of Maine, included a tangible vote of thanks to NFS Secretary Joan Brooks for her work for the Society, an announcement of the Lynn Franklin Fund honoring the recently deceased and a presentation by Amanda McQuiddy on her folk arts in the schools program. The meeting was followed by a party worthy of the occasion at which Society President Ives was presented with a volume of letters of appreciation for his 25 years of leadership and inspiration...
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Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 24, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History
Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 24, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History
Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter
The versitility of the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History has again been demonstrated by the visit of an English professor from Japan who is doing a comparative study of the Maine accent and Shakespearean pronounciation. Professor Tsuneko Ikemiya of Tezukayama University in Nara, Japan, a specialist in acoustic phonetics, has been working in the Archives since March listening to tapes of Mainers from different parts of the state.
While she is primarily concerned with similarities in the pronounciation of contemporary Maine dialects and Elizabethan English, Professor Ikemiya reports that she has also found herself so interested in what …