Abstract In variationist linguistics, the concept of implicational hierarchies, i.e. the idea that feature x implies y but not the reverse, has passed into oblivion the last decades (cf. Rickford 2002: 142). This paper aims at showing the usefulness of implicational scales as an analytical tool, especially when attempting to understand stylistic dynamics and the structure of intermediate variations in dialect/standard continua. The discussion is based on results from empirical research in Flanders, where intermediate language use between dialect and standard language (the so-called tussentaal) is increasingly prevalent. In general, tussentaal is conceived of as the whole continuum of regionally coloured language use in between the poles ‘traditional dialect’ and ‘standard language’, and it is hence said to differ from region to region, situation to situation and even from speaker to speaker (Willemyns 2005: 31). Necessary and sufficient conditions would be impossible to define (cf. De Caluwe 2006: 19). This paper however demonstrates, on the basis of quantitative analyses of nine language features as used by ten West Flemish speakers in three types of speech settings, that tussentaal is not just a random idiolectal mix of dialect features, but that it is structured by implicational principles shared across the speech community.

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口语比利时荷兰语中的隐含量表

摘要在变异主义语言学中，隐含层级的概念（即特征x表示y而不是相反的概念）在过去的几十年中被遗忘了（参见Rickford 2002：142）。本文旨在展示蕴涵量表作为一种分析工具的有用性，特别是在试图了解风格动态和方言/标准连续性中间变体的结构时。讨论基于弗兰德省的经验研究结果，在方言和标准语言（所谓的tussentaal）之间的中间语言使用越来越普遍。通常，在“传统方言”和“标准语言”两极之间，方言词被认为是区域性有色语言使用的整体连续体，因此，据说区域之间存在差异，情境之间，甚至说话者之间（Willemyns 2005：31）。必要条件和充分条件将无法定义（参见De Caluwe 2006：19）。然而，本文在对十种西佛兰德语使用者在三种语言环境中使用的九种语言特征进行定量分析的基础上，证明了方言散不仅是方言特征的随机组合，而且是由暗示原则构成的在整个语音社区中共享。