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Peer reviewedHeeringa, 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
