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Adolescent chat language in Flanders: the language geography of Flemish (sub)standardization processes.

research questions:-To what extent are morpho-syntactic Brabantic regiolectic features integrated in the chat language of Flemish adolescents?-What is the impact of the regional background of the chatters?-Do the analyses confirm the hypothesis that Flanders is subject to an autonomous informal standardisation process characterized by an increasing supraregional use of Brabantic regiolect?-Does chat language offer us a new possibilities and challenges for the study of language variation and language change in progress?
Date:1 Jan 2008 →  31 Dec 2008
Keywords:YOUNGSTERS, (SUB)STANDARDIZATION, SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Disciplines:Linguistics