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Dialect Areas and Dialect Continua.
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Heeringa, Wilbert; Nerbonne, John – Language Variation and Change, 2001
Discusses dialectal differences in the aggregate. Employs a dialectometric technique that provides an additive measure of pronunciation difference: The (aggregate) pronunciation difference. Sampled Dutch towns and villages, where the variation ranges between 56% and 81%, lending credence to the dialect continuum view. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dutch, Foreign Countries
Syntactic Variation, Parameters, and Social Distribution.
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Cornips, Leonie – Language Variation and Change, 1998
Concerns the interrelation between the theoretical status and the social dimensions of syntactic variation in Heerlen Dutch. Syntactic variation of Heerlen Dutch consists of a range of dative constructions that are unacceptable in standard Dutch. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Dutch, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory, Standard Spoken Usage
Divergence of Dialects in a Linguistic Laboratory Near the Belgian-Dutch-German Border: Similar Dialects Under the Influence of Different Standard Languages.
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Gerritsen, Marinel – Language Variation and Change, 1999
Deals with divergence on the lexical, phonological, and morphological levels in three dialects that were the same until the mid-20th century (Maaseiks in Belgium, Susters in the Netherlands, and Waldfeuchts in Germany) and that have changed under the influence of three different standard languages (Belgian Dutch, Netherlandic Dutch, and Standard…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Dutch, Foreign Countries
The Devoicing of Fricatives in Standard Dutch: A Real Time Study Based on Radio Recordings.
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Van De Velde, Hans; And Others – Language Variation and Change, 1996
Analyzes the devoicing of voiced fricatives in Southern Standard Dutch (spoken in Belgium) and Northern Standard Dutch (spoken in the Netherlands) based on archived recordings of radio broadcasts from 1935-93. Findings reveal a divergence between the two language varieties in the pronunciation of voiced fricatives in this period. (54 references)…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Audiotape Recordings, Comparative Analysis, Dutch