- Author
- Year
- 2015
- Title
- Morphological variation in the speech of Frisian-Dutch bilinguals: (Dis)similarity of linking suffixes and plural endings
- Journal
- Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
- Volume | Issue number
- 5 | 3
- Pages (from-to)
- 356-378
- Document type
- Article
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities (FGw)
- Institute
- Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
- Abstract
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In standard Dutch, the plural suffix -en is homographic and homophonic with the linking suffix -en (boek+en "books", boek+en+kast "bookcase"), both being pronounced as schwa. In Frisian, there is neither homography nor homophony (boek+en "books", pronounced with syllabic nasal; boek+e+kast "bookcase", pronounced with a linking schwa). Seeing that many areas of Frisian grammar are subject to interference from Dutch, we investigated whether Frisian-Dutch bilinguals exhibit interference from Dutch with respect to the linking suffix during Frisian speech production. Two types of Frisian-Dutch bilinguals emerged: Speakers who had Dutch as their first language tended to maintain the Dutch system of homophony between plural and linking suffixes when speaking Frisian, by using the Frisian plural as a linking morpheme. Speakers who had Frisian as their first language often maintained the Frisian system of no homophony when speaking Frisian. The implications for morphological theories are discussed.
- URL
- go to publisher's site
- Language
- English
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.433446
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