The Afrikaans speech community is characterized by a long-standing rift between Whites and Coloureds, for large part bilingual, with English being increasingly integrated in its stylistic repertoire. Yet, the history of different across White/Coloured divide, as particular terms diffusion ideological associations. question we wish to ask twofold. First, how far may there be ethnic norms Afrikaa...

Language variationists study how languages vary along geographical or social lines or along lines of age and gender. Variationist data is available and challenging, in particular for DIALECTOLOGY, the study of geographical variation, which will be the focus of this paper, although we present approaches we expect to transfer smoothly to the study of variation correlating with other extralinguist...

The primary data on pronunciation variation – e.g., dialect atlas data – is often recorded incommensurably, i.e. in different ways in different atlases, and even in different ways within the same atlas when teams of fieldworkers and transcribers are involved. In particular these data collections differ in the detail in which pronunciations are recorded, using between 40 and 100 different basic ...