Editing Yorkshire dialect (section)

====Rhoticity====
At the time of the Survey of English Dialects, most places in Yorkshire were non-rhotic, but full [[Rhoticity in English|rhoticity]] could be found in Swaledale, Lonsdale, Ribblesdale, and the rural area west of Halifax and Huddersfield.{{sfnp|Wells|1982|p=368}} In addition, the area along the east coast of Yorkshire retained rhoticity when {{IPA|/r/}} was in final position though not when it was in preconsonantal position (e.g. ''farmer'' {{IPA|[ˈfaːmɚ]}}).{{sfnp|Wells|1982|p=368}} A 1981 MA study found that rhoticity persisted in the towns of [[Hebden Bridge]], [[Lumbutts]], and [[Todmorden]] in Upper [[Calderdale]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Patchett|first=J.&nbsp;H.|title=The Dialect of Upper Calderdale|journal=Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society|volume=XV|issue=LXXXI|year=1981|pages=24–37}}</ref>

Rhoticity seems to have been more widespread in Yorkshire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: for example, the city of Wakefield was marked as rhotic in the works of A.&nbsp;J. Ellis, and the recording of a prisoner of war from Wakefield in the [[Berliner Lautarchiv]] displays rhotic speech, but the speech of Wakefield nowadays is firmly non-rhotic.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Aveyard|first=Edward|title=Berliner Lautarchiv: the Wakefield Sample|journal=Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society|year=2019|pages=1–5}}</ref>