Kathy Rys

Rys, Kathy, Emmanuel Keuleers, Walter Daelemans and Steven Gillis 2017 Chapter 10. Acquisition of phonological variables of a Flemish dialect by children raised in Standard Dutch: Some considerations on the learning mechanisms Acquiring Sociolinguistic Variation, De Vogelaer, Gunther and Matthias Katerbow (eds.), pp. 267–304 | Chapter

This study investigates the learning mechanisms underlying the acquisition of a dialect as a second language. We focus on the acquisition of phonological features of a Flemish dialect by children with Standard Dutch or a regional variety of Dutch as their first language. Data were gathered by means… read more

Rys, Kathy and Albert Oosterhof 2016 Fragment answers with infinitives in a Flemish dialect Linguistics in the Netherlands 2016, Audring, Jenny and Sander Lestrade (eds.), pp. 89–105 | Article

This paper is devoted to a construction in a specific Flemish dialect, in which infinitives are used in fragment answers in contexts where this would be unacceptable in other varieties. Questions such as Waar is mijn boek? ‘Where is my book?’ can be answered with constructions such as Op tafel… read more

Rys, Kathy and Dries Bonte 2006 The role of linguistic factors in the process of second dialect acquisition Language Variation – European Perspectives: Selected papers from the Third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 3), Amsterdam, June 2005, Hinskens, Frans L. (ed.), pp. 201–215 | Article

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