Standard Dutch with a Regional Accent

This paper reports on an evaluation study of standard Dutch as spoken in four regions in The Netherlands by listeners from the same regions. 429 listeners rated 20 listeners on four Likert scales (standard, regional, beautiful and polished). It is shown that the regional accents are rated differently, and the Randstad accent receives the highest scores for accent norm and accent euphony, while the peripheral regions get the lowest scores. The evaluation is rather homogenous all over The Netherlands, but one region has a deviant pattern. Listeners from the South are more positive about their ow... Mehr ...