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Title: Perceiving Dialects: A Magnitude Estimation Study


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Perceiving Dialects A Magnitude Estimation Study
  • L.A. Stowe
  • J. Hoeksema
  • R. Hartsuiker
  • M Devos

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Introduction
  • In what ways do language variants differ?
  • Under conditions of contact how are these
    differences processed?

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Introduction
  • Production
  • Elicitation
  • Corpus frequency
  • Perception
  • Grammaticality judgments
  • Do these differ?

4
Two variants of Dutch
  • Northern (Netherlands Standard Dutch)
  • Southern (Belgian Standard Dutch)
  • Syntactic differences
  • Generally more a difference of frequency than of
    grammaticality

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Overview
  • Embedded verb cluister interruption
  • No agreement marker in definite neuter
  • Verbal particle early in embedded clause
  • Missing infinitive marker
  • North South
  • Rare Less rare
  • Rare Frequent
  • Frequent Less freq
  • Rare Less Rare

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Overview
  • Embedded verb cluister interruption
  • North South
  • Rare Less rare

7
Verbal Cluster Interruption
  • PP/NP Inflected V Nonfinite Verb
  • Inflected V PP/NP Nonfinite Verb
  • more common in the Southern variant, although
    still rare
  • Interrupted order relatively archaic
  • More common in idiomatic expressions (ko0elmans,
    19??)

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Materials
  • Dat waren kwesties die de heren uit het oog
    hadden verloren
  • Dat waren kwesties die de heren hadden uit het
    oog verloren
  • Lit Those were questions that the gentlemen had
    out the eye lost (lost track of)

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Procedure
  • Self generated acceptability scale with
    intermediate graduations relative to other items
  • For finer distinctions than grammaticality
  • Items distributed across lists so matched without
    repetition

10
Anbalysis
  • Self-generated acceptability judgment converted
    to Z-scores
  • For comparability
  • Average judgment per condition calculated for
    each subject and each item
  • Subject and item AnoVas
  • Language Variant, Cluster Interruption (Idiom)

11
Northern vs. Southern
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Discussion
  • Increased frequency within language variant
    increases acceptability
  • But infrequent forms are still relativedly less
    acceptable
  • Role of idiomaticity?

13
Non-idiomatic Sentences
  • Dat waren brieven die de dames in hun tas hadden
    gestopt.
  • ?Dat waren brieven die de dames hadden in hun
    tas gestopt.
  • Lit Those were letters that the ladies had in
    their bags placed.

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Northern Results
15
Southern Results
16
Discussion
  • Data supports role for idiomaticity in perception
    as well as production
  • Present in both dialects, although greater in the
    Southern variant

17
Noun Agreement
  • Het oude huis
  • Een oud huis
  • de oude man
  • Een oude man

18
Southern Variant(for some lexical combinations)
  • de oude man
  • Een oude man
  • Het oud huis
  • Een oud huis

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Overview
  • Embedded verb cluister interruption
  • No agreement marker in definite neuter
  • North South
  • Rare Less rare
  • Rare Frequent

20
Noun Agreement
  • Er werden tijdens het belangrijke gesprek een
    paar afspraken gemaakt.
  • ?Er werden tijdens het belangrijk gesprek een
    paar afspraken gemaakt.
  • Lit There were during the important conversation
    a couple-of agreements made.

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Doubt
  • If we see little difference,
  • is this just because it is easy to miss the
    visual instantiation of agreement in a sentence?

22
Agreement Controls
  • Er werden tijdens de lange vergadering een paar
    punten besproken.
  • Er werden tijdens de lang vergadering een paar
    punten besproken.
  • Lit There were during the long meeting a
    couple-of points discussed.

23
Southern Results
24
Northern Results
25
Discussion
  • Perception clearly mirrors production
  • Inflectionless form as acceptable as the
    inflected version for the Southern variant

26
Overview
  • Embedded verb cluister interruption
  • No agreement marker in definite neuter
  • North South
  • Rare Less rare
  • Rare Frequent

27
Discussion
  • Rarity vs. grammaticality?
  • More acceptable than verb cluster interruption
    even for Northern variant
  • Salience?

28
Overview
  • Embedded verb cluister interruption
  • No agreement marker in definite neuter
  • Verbal particle early in embedded clause
  • North South
  • Rare Less rare
  • Rare Frequent
  • Frequent Less freq

29
Verbal Particle Position
  • Inflected V Particle-Nonfinite Verb
  • Particle Inflected V Nonfinite Verb
  • less common in the Southern variant
  • 1/10

30
Particle Placement
  • De chef vroeg hoe het team de werkzaamheden zou
    indelen.
  • ?De chef vroeg hoe het team de werkzaamheden in
    zou delen.
  • Lit The manager asked how the team the tasks
    would apportion.

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Effects of Length
  • De chef vroeg hoe het team de erkzaamheden zou
    willen indelen
  • ?De chef vroeg hoe het team de werkzaamheden in
    zou willen delen
  • Lit The manager asked how the team the tasks
    would want to apportion.

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Northern Results
33
Southern Results
34
Discussion
  • Perception mirrors production
  • But difference in production frequency does not
    lead to extreme differences in acceotability
  • Contact?

35
Lexical SelectionInfinitive
  • V to-VP
  • V VP

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Lexical SelectionInfinitive
  • Het publiek begon (te) praten.
  • Lit The audience began (to) talk
  • De baby probeerde (te) lopen.
  • Lit The baby tried (to) walk.

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Control Conditions
  • De ongenode gast durfde (te) zitten.
  • Lit The uninvited guest dared (to) sit.
  • Het was moeilijk om (te) reizen
  • Lit It was difficult (to) travel.

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Results
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Overview
  • Embedded verb cluister interruption
  • No agreement marker in definite neuter
  • Verbal particle early in embedded clause
  • Missing infinitive marker
  • North South
  • Rare Less rare
  • Rare Frequent
  • Frequent Less freq
  • Rare Less Rare
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