The aim of this book is to broaden and deepen our understanding of the complex dynamics
underlying the development of “new standards” in many European languages, by zooming …

This article investigates three neglected determinants of native speakers' attitudes toward
regional accent variation in Netherlandic Standard Dutch, namely, accent strength, speaker …

The growing variability in Europe's standard languages has spawned widely shared
accounts of destandardization, as well as premonitions of the death of the very idea of a …

Few areas in late-modern Europe manifest language dynamics which are so exciting (to
linguists) and controversial (to non-linguists) as those witnessed in Flanders, the Dutch …

In this paper we report a new speaker evaluation experiment to follow up on an earlier study,
which found that the Moroccan accent of Netherlandic Standard Dutch was generally …

Our intention in this article is to document and analyse an exceptional period in Flemish
linguistic history that has not received a lot of attention thusfar, viz., the 1950s through the …

Flanders, the northern, Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, is experiencing growing intra-and
interlingual diversity. On the intralingual level, Tussentaal ('in-between-language') has …

In view of the fact that Netherlandic Standard Dutch has been found to be stratifying–ie
incorporating regional accent variation to allow speakers to profile local group membership …

This paper introduces the Personalized Implicit Association Test (P-IAT, Olson & Fazio,
2004) as a novel measure for language attitudes. Tying in with sociolinguists' renewed …

The present study examines adolescents' attitudes and perceptions with respect to writing
practices on social media. It reports the findings of a survey conducted among 168 Flemish …