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Publication details [#33023]

Houwer, Annick De. 2003. Language variation and local elements in family discourse. Language Variation and Change 15 (3) : 329–349.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | family conversation | language variation

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0954-3945

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study examines language variation in the family discourse of three families with small children in Antwerp, an officially Dutch-speaking Belgian city. Language variation is chiefly considered here in terms of whether the utterances include local dialect features or not.