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The Continuity of Linguistic Change: Selected papers in honour of Juan Andrés Villena-Ponsoda
Edited by Matilde Vida-Castro and Antonio Manuel Ávila-Muñoz
[Studies in Language Variation 31] 2024
► pp. 56–78

Chapter 3
Social patterns in s-palatalisation in Moroccan and Turkish ethnolectal Dutch

One half of a sociolinguistic study

| Meertens Instituut , Netherlands | Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen , Netherlands
| Meertens Instituut , Netherlands
This is a study of variable s-palatalisation in Turkish and Moroccan ethnolectal Dutch, with special attention to its social distribution. Following a discussion of the phenomenon of ethnolectal variation, this chapter introduces the Roots of Ethnolects project as well as the present sub-study. It then explores palatalisation both in general and specifically in the realisation of /s/, before presenting the details of this study on s-palatalisation in the Roots of Ethnolects data, including methodology, the speakers studied, material and data, coding, measurement and analysis. Lastly, it discusses the findings from the point of view of the research questions guiding the Roots of Ethnolects project as well as issues for further research.
Keywords: ethnolect, Centre of Gravity, first and second language acquisition, language contact, language variation, palatalisation, social meaning
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Ethnolectal variation
  • 3.The roots of ethnolects project
    • 3.1The present study
  • 4.S-palatalisation
    • 4.1Palatalisation
    • 4.2Variable palatalisation of coronals other than /s/
    • 4.3Variable palatalisation of /s/
  • 5.S-palatalisation in the roots of Ethnolects data: Method and approach
    • 5.1Speakers
    • 5.2Material and data
    • 5.3Coding and measurement
    • 5.4Data analyses
  • 6.Findings
  • 7.Discussion and issues for further research
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 5 February 2024
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