Linking elements in compounds - LOT publications

SIMILARITY OF PLURAL ENDINGS AND LINKING ELEMENTS
(cf. Table 3) have impact on the scores of n-realization. While almost all
speakers from this region spoke dialect (96%), we only took into account the
factors gender, age and the extent of speaking dialect. In Table 5 we
summarized the mean scores of n-realizations, the mean age and the mean use
of dialect per gender for region South.
Table 5
Mean Scores (M) plus Standard Deviations (SD) of n-Realization along a Five-point Scale
(1, 2 = [ə]; 3 = unclear; 4, 5 = [(ə)n]) in Phrases and Compounds, and Mean Age and
Mean Use of Dialect for the Southern region in the Netherlands according to Gender
Condition or Gender
Variable
Male (n = 9) Female (n = 14)
M SD M SD
Phrase 3.33 1.38 2.99 1.57
Compound 3.16 1.46 2.88 1.54
Age 17 1.36 17 1.31
Use of dialect 3.00 0.87 3.14 1.10
As can be seen from Table 5, the males and females from the Southern
region did not differ significantly with regard to the production of en in phrases
and compounds (for both groups: t < 1). Furthermore, there were no
significant gender differences in the mean ages of the participants from this
region (t < 1), and no significant gender differences in their regular use of the
dialect (t < 1). This means that the external factors of gender, age and use of
dialect cannot explain the deviant results for the Southern region of the
Netherlands.
When the speakers from the South were compared to the speakers from the
other regions in the Netherlands (see Table 3) in an Analysis of variance, a
significant main effect of Dialect speaker (i.e., number of speakers of dialect)
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