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Download full textDressman, Michael R. – College Quarterly, 2005
It has been said that the difference between a dialect and a language is that a language has an international border and a flag. But that is not entirely true. Canada has a border, a flag, and two major languages, somewhat in the fashion of Belgium. Unlike Belgium, where they call the local varieties of French and Dutch "Walloon" and…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Foreign Countries, French, Bilingualism
Peer reviewedVan 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
