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Publication details [#53435]

Hout, Roeland van, Stefan Grondelaers and Mieke Steegs. 2010. Evaluating Regional Accent Variation in Standard Dutch. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 29 (1) : 101–116.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accent1 | evaluation | language attitude | native speaker | standard1 vs. dialect2

Language as a subject

Dutch

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper explores native speakers’ attitudes towards regional accent variation in Netherlandic Standard Dutch, using the speaker evaluation paradigm. Findings disclose that an accent provokes perceptions of its intrinsic euphony and norm status in addition to speaker status and integrity.