Morphological variation in the speech of Frisian-Dutch bilinguals

In standard Dutch, the plural suffix - en is homographic and homophonic with the linking suffix - en ( boek+en “books”, boek+en+kast “bookcase”), both being pronounced as schwa. In Frisian, there is neither homography nor homophony ( boek+en “books”, pronounced with syllabic nasal; boek+e+kast “bookcase”, pronounced with a linking schwa). Seeing that many areas of Frisian grammar are subject to interference from Dutch, we investigated whether...