Takeda, 2002: A Study of Dialect Levelling in Some Fifteenth-Century Yorkshire Documents
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khafara
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Subject: Takeda, 2002: A Study of Dialect Levelling in Some Fifteenth-Century Yorkshire Documents Thu Sep 18, 2014 7:24 pm
Over a decade ago, linguist Reiko Takeda wrote this paper for her doctorate degree at the University of Leeds. I think the arguments made by it (namely, that dialect levelling had more to do with creating Early Modern English than did chancery documents) are fairly sound.
Here's the U of Leeds website wherein I found the paper: