Mobility, contact and accommodation

Abstract

Third, in studies on accommodation as a consequence of migration, the focus is on changes in the language behaviour of the migrants. It is not impossible though that the receiving group may accommodate to the immigrants and change their speaking habits, or that the immigration has a more indirect but still permanent impact on the local varieties. For instance, it has been argued that the large-scale immigration of speakers of Brabant (particularly Antwerp) into the HagueAmsterdam area, as it occurred in consequence of the fall of Antwerp to the Spanish in 1585, led to a massive Brabantish influence on the Amsterdam dialect (see Paardekooper 2001 for details).

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