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Author Hinskens, Frans

Title Dialect Levelling in Limburg
Published De Gruyter, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (430 pages)
Series Linguistische Arbeiten ; v. 356
Linguistische Arbeiten
Contents Foreword; Symbols and abbreviations; Part I. Models; Chapter 1 A sociolinguistic model and three hypotheses; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The absence of studies of dialect levelling; 1.2.1 Language loss, dialect loss and dialect levelling; 1.2.2 Research on the structural consequences of language contact; 1.2.3 The notion of dialect levelling in the literature; 1.2.4 Fencing off the notion of dialect levelling from related concepts; 1.2.5 Trudgill's model of accommodation and levelling in situations of dialects in contact; 1.3 Developing a sociolinguistic model of dialect levelling. Introduction
1.3.1 Inter- and intra-systemic variation1.3.2 Dialect levelling is a two-dimensional process. Hypothesis I; 1.3.3 Dialect levelling proceeds gradually. Hypothesis II; 1.3.4 Dialect levelling is foreshadowed in accommodation. Hypothesis III; 1.4 Summary and perspective; Chapter 2 The phonological model; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Explaining language change; 2.3 The phonological model; 2.3.1 Introduction: the modular organization of phonology; 2.3.2 Lexical and prosodic phonology; 2.3.3 Autosegmental phonology; 2.3.4 Metrical phonology
2.3.5 Relationships between the autosegmental and metrical subsystems2.4 The hierarchical organization of syllable structure; 2.4.1 Introduction: a few historiographical remarks; 2.4.2 Syllable well-formedness; 2.4.3 The sonority concept; 2.4.4 The distribution of sonority over the syllable; 2.4.5 How symmetrical is the syllable?; 2.4.6 Several types of evidence; 2.4.7 Universal and language specific aspects; 2.4.8 Syllable structure, resyllabification and sonority; 2.5 Language variation and related phenomena as a field of shared interest of phonology and sociolinguistics
2.5.1 Internal forces as probabilistic explanations of change or levellingPart II. Setting, methods and linguistic variables; Chapter 3 The research area; 3.1 Introducing the former Mine District, Ubach over Worms and Rimburg; 3.2 The economic and socio-demographic history of the region: a brief sketch; 3.2.1 The pre-industrial period; 3.2.2 The industrialization process and its demographic effects; 3.2.3 Effects on infrastructure. Flexible response by the power elite; 3.2.4 Ongoing demographic developments. Employment; 3.2.5 Further rise and sudden decline of the coal industry
3.2.6 Recent socio-geographical developments3.2.7 Rimburg: the pre-industrial period; 3.2.8 Rimburg: the years of the industrialization of the region and afterwards; 3.2.9 Recent administrative changes; 3.3 The dialect situation; 3.3.1 Introduction; 3.3.2 Some diachronic developments and their dialect-geographical reflections; 3.3.3 Recent changes in the position of the dialect; Chapter 4 Methodological aspects; 4.1 Operationalizations of the hypotheses; the design of the investigation; 4.2 The selection of linguistic variables
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Subject Dutch language -- Dialects -- Netherlands -- Limburg
Linguistic change.
Dutch language -- Dialects.
Linguistic change.
Netherlands -- Limburg.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 3110929686
9783110929683