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Proceedings of the first workshop on "The role of standard varieties in the convergence and divergences of dialects", held in Berg en Dal, on 4-6 July 1996: "Between basic dialect and standard language" by Günter Bellmann; "Contact-induced changes in modern west Frisian" by Germen J. de Haan; "Virtual convergence and dialect levelling in Luxembourgish" by Peter Gilles; "Dialect levelling: a two-dimensional process" by Frans Hinskens; "Urban colloquial Swedish in Finland" by Ann-Marie Ivars; "The extreme case of Denmark: far-reaching standardisation and disappearance of all traditional dialects. Why does it happen?" by Tore Kristiansen; "The spread of Viennese Monophthongization: a case of dialect levelling?" BY Sylvia Moosmüller; "The diffusion of a new morphology in Norwegian dialects" by Helge Sandøy; "Regional varieties as a result of convergence and divergence between dialects and standard language" by Hannes Scheutz; "Italianization and variations in the repertoire: the Koinai" by Alberto A. Sobrero; "Levelling phenomena in the Flemish dialects: some observations on their teleology" by Johan Taeldeman.

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