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Morphology Atlas of Dutch Dialects
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The Morphology Atlas of Dutch Dialects is an atlas unique of
its kind. No atlasses before have had its size and depth. The theme
of plural formation alone already comprises 40 main maps.
Several sidemaps are drawn to illustrate subthemes and tonal features. Insights into the variability of human language, in casu Dutch dialects, coupled to images of spatial relations, provide for better understandings of areas like language history, language contact, the human cognition.
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selections of plurals and diminutives examples of verbs |
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| Language change Regular large scale fieldwork is of great importance in order to preserve the ever changing variational facts for future research. Only in this way will it be possible to investigate the lines along which variation tales place.
The sound recordings of Dutch dialect speech of 611 localities around
the Netherlands, Flanders and French Flanders come after a period of
55 years since the start of the Reeks Nederlandse Dialectatlassen. |
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| An example of language change made visisble is the pronunciation
of s and z before a vowel like is attested in the new
material compared with an analysis of data from the 14th century
Corpus Van Reenen-Mulder.
Another example illustrates the rise of the phenomenon of dropping word final e in the singular. Data on frequencies within the 14th century show the phenomenon slowly conquering the area where people are nowadays unaware it even existed. Comparison with more recent material suggests that language contact between dialects is very limited nowadays; language changes seem to have come to a halt. A comparison with data from 1936 show few changes regarding the palatal element within the diminutive suffix. |
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Theory development As important is the challenge for current theories within linguistics. The size and variety of the gathered data allow for statistical methods being applied for uncovering underlying structures within language variation. An example of challenging research is the study into variation regarding word final t-drop; current linguistic theories cannot as yet integrate this structured variation. Another example pertains to the within variation regarding t-drop in verbal endings. Because of the scope and size of the collection it is possible to show the structure of the within variation by means of graphics right where ususal geographical maps are not apt for uncovering this detail. Studies into word final n, again only made possible because of the scale of the project, show the role of abstract categorizations in the realization (or not) of final n. Theories on pronunciation of graphemes in medieval writings can now be related to current dialect variation: maps extracted from the 14th century Van Reenen-Mulder corpus are being confirmed by images on the basis of the MAND material. The gh (before a front vowel) indeed appears to be the spelling of velar g (like in Gherard) while g appears to signal the palatalized g (Gilles). Furthermore it appears that the u in the medieval east remained representing IPA [u] while u in the medieval west has come to mean IPA [y]. Data source & related projects |
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| The current atlas project is sistered by the Phonological Atlas of Dutch Dialects (FAND) covering present day variation in pronunciation. The FAND (published by the Belgian Academy) highlights its themes from an histiorical perspective and contains hundreds of colored maps. | FAND | |||
Both projects base themselves upon the already mentioned fieldwork
which took place from 1980 till 1995 and was initiated by
Goeman, Taeldeman en Van Reenen. |
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A new round of fieldwork takes place around the
Syntax Atlas of Dutch Dialects (SAND). The number of recorded places
however has been quite reduced but elicitation of this specific kind
of data is far more complicated.
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The first volume (on plurals and diminutives) will arise form a close
cooperation of the Meertens Instituut, the Royal Academy for Dutch
Language and Literature (KANTL) at Ghent and the Free University (VU)
at Amsterdam.
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