Will Dutch become Flemish? Autonomous developments in Belgian Dutch

H. van de Velde, M. Kissine, E. Tops, S. van der Harst, R.W.N.M. van Hout

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    Abstract

    In this paper a series of studies of standard Dutch pronunciation in Belgium and the Netherlands is presented. The research is based on two speech corpora: a diachronic corpus of radio speech (1935-1995) and a synchronic corpus of Belgian and Netherlandic standard Dutch from different regions at the turn of the millennium. It is shown that two divergent pronunciation standards have been developing, but it is argued that the divergence will not create two autonomous standard languages. As such, Dutch is not different from its two closest pluricentric neighbours, German and English.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)385-416
    Number of pages32
    JournalMultilingua. Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication
    Volume29
    Issue number3/4
    Publication statusPublished - 2010

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