Usage of Dutch regional languages and dialects is very much in decline in favour of usage of standard Dutch. This paper analyses the developments in usage in the period 1995-2003 using data from five measurement points of the national cohort study Primai y Education (PRIMA). A total of 35,000 pupils and their parents were involved in this study. In addition, this paper analyses the relationship between usage of regional languages and dialects on the one hand and a number of family demographical characteristics and the children's Dutch language proficiency on the other. The results show that it is imperative to treat the Netherlands not as a whole but to differentiate between language areas. In contrast to the other regional languages and dialects the future of Limburgish seems less gloomy.
2022. Better catch them young, but how?. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 11
Hovens, Daan
2021. Language policy and linguistic landscaping in a contemporary blue-collar workplace in the Dutch–German borderland. Language Policy 20:4 ► pp. 645 ff.
Ramachers, Stefanie, Susanne Brouwer & Paula Fikkert
2017. How Native Prosody Affects Pitch Processing during Word Learning in Limburgian and Dutch Toddlers and Adults. Frontiers in Psychology 8
RAMACHERS, STEFANIE, SUSANNE BROUWER & PAULA FIKKERT
2018. No perceptual reorganization for Limburgian tones? A cross-linguistic investigation with 6- to 12-month-old infants. Journal of Child Language 45:2 ► pp. 290 ff.
2020. The impact of preschool attendance on children's bidialectism in The Netherlands: Why toddlers may stop speaking a regional language (Limburgish) at home. Language in Society 49:3 ► pp. 333 ff.
2009. Dimensions and determinants of dialect use in the Netherlands at the individual and regional levels at the end of the twentieth century. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2009:196-197
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