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Tom F. H. Smits and Hanne Kloots: Schwa apocope in the German–Dutch border region of Vreden – Winterswijk

The target words were elicited as part of a wider study into dialect divergence in the Vreden – Winterswijkborder region (Smits 2007, in print). The test subjects were given a series of translation assignments, designed to study various linguistic phenomena. The stimuli for the study into schwa apocope were prompted by the translation task shown as Table i.