Estimating the Level and Direction of Phonetic Dialect Change in the Northern Netherlands
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2021
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Abstract
This article reports ongoing investigations into phonetic change of dialect
groups in the northern Netherlandic language area, particularly the Frisian and
Low Saxon dialect groups, which are known to differ in vitality. To achieve
this, we combine existing phonetically transcribed corpora with dialectometric
approaches that allow us to quantify change among older male dialect speakers
in a real-time framework. A multidimensional variant of the Levenshtein
distance, combined with methods that induce realistic phonetic distances
between transcriptions, is used to estimate how much dialect groups have
changed between 1990 and 2010, and whether they changed towards Standard Dutch
or away from it. Our analyses indicate that language change is a slow process
in this geographical area. Moreover, the Frisian and Groningen dialect groups
seem to be most stable, while the other Low Saxon varieties (excluding the
Groningen dialect group) were shown to be most prone to change. We offer
possible explanations for our findings, while we discuss shortcomings of the
data and approach in detail, as well as desiderata for future research.
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| Authors | Raoul Buurke; Hedwig Sekeres; Wilbert Heeringa; Remco Knooihuizen; Martijn Wieling |
| Journal | arXiv |
| Year | 2021 |
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