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Social Sciences, Linguistics, Language & Linguistics, DUTCH, MOROCCAN DUTCH, CORPUS, CHAT, STABLE LEXICAL MARKER ANALYSIS, ETHNIC DUTCH, REPRESENTATIVITY, ETHNOLECTS, ADJECTIVES, VARIETIES, GERMAN, 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2003 Language Studies, 2004 Linguistics, 4703 Language studies, 4704 Linguistics

Abstract:

In this article we introduce a new corpus of computer-mediated communication in Dutch by Maroccan-Dutch language users, consisting of ten million words of chat material. The background, the compilation methods and the inner structure of the corpus are described, and we relate our efforts to previous attempts to build a corpus of Dutch chat language. We also conduct a Stable Lexical Marker analysis and a case study on a well-known morphosyntactic feature of Moroccan Dutch to assess the representativity of the corpus.