Abstract
IntroductionWhere a dominant and a subordinate language are spoken in one area, thecurrent view is that the subordinate language will be influenced by thedominant language. Because Friesland has a bilingual situation, in whichDutch is the dominant language in more forma! domains, one might expectFrisian to change under the influence of Dutch. In such a process, women,the upper classes, and younger people are supposed to change first. We therefore frame the hypothesis that these groups will generally show Dutch linguistic forms to a greater extent.Soda! and linguistic variables \SodalvariablesOur inquiry 'Changes in pronunciation of Frisian under. the influence ofDutch' focuses on the pronunciation of a number ofsandhi phenomena inthe Frisian and the Dutch ofnative speakers of Frisian. We expect the pronunciation of Frisian and Dutch ofthe individual informants to run parallelas regards the extent ofits Frisian character.The project contains two elements that are rather unusual insociolinguisticresearch:1. Our informants are divided into groups of three belonging to the samefamily, either as grandfather, father, and son or as grandmother, mother, anddaughter (in order to keep other factors in the comparison between thegenerations maximally constant).2. The informants are interviewed in Frisian and in Dutch by a Frisiannative speaker and a Dutch native speaker respectively (in order to keep thecircumstances of the interviews as natura1 as possib1e).
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