Syncretism in Dutch dialects

The first person singular in Dutch dialects

1 The first person singular in Dutch Recent years have witnessed a renewed interest in the study of the phonological differences between morphological categories, in particular between nouns and verbs (e. Generally speaking, there seem to be three types of approach to these distinctions within constraint-based grammar: 1. Assume that there are separate (faithfulness) constraints or constraint r...

Measuring Syntactic Variation in Dutch Dialects

This research applies dialectometric methods to purely syntactic dialect data. It will be shown that there is geographic cohesion in syntactic variation when viewed in the aggregate. The amount of syntactic variation which can be accounted for by geography will be determined. Dialectometric techniques will be used to develop an additive measure of syntactic differences. Multidimensional scaling...

Phonological recoverability in dialects of Dutch

One of the fundamental problems for constraint-based theories of phonology is the issue of opacity: a phonological process applies where it should not, or does not apply where it should, if we look at the phonological context on the surface. Since well-formedness constraints in a theory such as Optimality Theory typically refer to surface structure only, it is a puzzle how to deal with such phe...

Empirical syntax : Idiolectal variability in two - and three - verb clusters in regional standard Dutch and Dutch dialects

The goal of this paper is to dìscuss idìolectal variabilþ in a regional Dutch variefy and Dutch dialects concerning word order in the twoand threeverb cluste¡ (right periphery) on the basis of two solid empirical studies; that is, (i) a corpus 33.5 hours ofrecorded spontaneous speech of67 speakers in the cþ of Heerlen in the southeastern part of the Netherlands and (ii) a corpus of wdtten relat...

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