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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
Peer reviewedTottie, Gunnel; Rey, Michel – Language Variation and Change, 1997
Examines the system of relative markers in early African American English as documented in the Ex-Slave Recordings. Found a higher incidence of zero marking in adverbial than in nonadverbial relatives. The lack of "wh"-relatives found, as well as this frequency of zero subject relatives, is interpreted as evidence that African American…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Black Dialects, Data Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics
