Editing Yola dialect (section)

==Phonology==
As in the [[Dutch language]], in southwestern varieties of English and (to a lesser extent) in German, most [[voiceless consonant|voiceless]] [[fricative consonant|fricative]]s in Yola became [[voiced consonant|voiced]]. The [[Middle English language|Middle English]] vowels are well-preserved, having only partially and sporadically undergone the changes associated with the [[Great Vowel Shift]].<ref>Hickey, R. (1988). A lost Middle English dialect. Historical Dialectology: Regional and Social, 37, 235.</ref>

One striking characteristic of Yola was the fact that [[stress (linguistics)|stress]] shifted to the second syllable of words in many instances: {{lang|yol|mor<u>saale</u>}} "morsel", {{lang|yol|hat<u>cheat</u>}} "hatchet", {{lang|yol|di<u>neare</u>}} "dinner", {{lang|yol|rea<u>deare</u>}} "reader", {{lang|yol|wed<u>deen</u>}} "wedding", etc.<ref>{{cite book |last=O'Rahilly |first=T. F |author-link=T. F. O'Rahilly |chapter=The Accent in the English of South-east Wexford |title=Irish Dialects Past and Present |year=1932 |location=Dublin |publisher=Browne and Nolan |pages=94–98 }} Reprinted 1972 by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, {{ISBN|0-901282-55-3}}.</ref>