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Delarue, Steven; De Caluwe, Johan – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
Flanders, the northern, Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, is experiencing growing intra- and interlingual diversity. On the intralingual level, Tussentaal ("in-between-language") has emerged as a cluster of intermediate varieties between the Flemish dialects and Standard Dutch, gradually becoming "the" colloquial language. At the…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Indo European Languages, Native Language, Foreign Countries
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Verhoeven, Jo; De Pauw, Guy; Kloots, Hanne – Language and Speech, 2004
This paper investigates speech rate in two standard national varieties of Dutch on the basis of 160 15 mins conversations with native speakers who belong to four different regions in the Netherlands and four in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium (Flanders). Speech rate was quantified as articulation rate and speaking rate, both expressed as the…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Native Speakers
Willemyns, Roland – 1987
While the concepts of language continuum and diglossia are widely cited and discussed, they remain generally vague and are used in different ways by different linguists. Recent sociolinguistic research on Dutch-speaking Belgium provides a framework for examining the two concepts, a context for proposing a theoretical definition for language…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communicative Competence (Languages), Diglossia, Dutch