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1450: 1225:'good' (featuring the dragging tone, transcribed as a high tone). The push tone is realized as a rising-falling contour in the declarative pattern, whereas the dragging tone varies between rising (when the sentence focus falls on the syllable that is non-final) and a shallow rising-falling contour when the syllable is sentence-final. The distinction between the two tones is neutralized outside of the sentence focus. In interrogative sentences, the distinction is always made. 1507: 1252: 190: 314:
The most important characteristic which distinguishes the dialect of Sittard from adjacent Limburgish dialects is the so-called Sittard diphthongization, i.e. the replacement of the close-mid monophthongs
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there. Of all other important Limburgish dialects, the dialect of Sittard is most closely related to that of
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Carlos Gussenhoven Over het waarom van de Sittardse diftongering Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen in Dutch
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The Sittard diphthongization (after Dols, 1953) extends into the German municipality
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which distinguishes syllables with a push tone from those with a dragging tone.
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As many other Limburgish dialects, the Sittard dialect features a contrastive
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phenomenon in Standard Dutch, though it is extended to the environment before
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Tone and intonation in the Lemiers dialect of Ripuarian
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Taal in stad en land. Venloos, Roermonds en Sittards
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Netherlands
Germany
Sittard
Koningsbosch
Selfkant
Language family
Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
Istvaeonic
Low Franconian
Meuse-Rhenish
Limburgish
East Limburgish
Southern East Limburgish
ISO 639-3
Glottolog

Selfkant
Dutch
Limburgish
‹See Tfd›
German
Limburgish
dialect
Sittard
Koningsbosch
Germany
Selfkant

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