Variation in R-Pronouns in Moroccan and Turkish Ethnolectal Dutch and What It Tells Us
Michol F. Hoffman
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
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Reviewer 2 Report
This paper offers an analysis of a less studied feature of Dutch by ethnolinguistically diverse communities. There are fewer studies of grammatical variables as ethnolinguistic features. As such, this data is a welcome addition to the literature on ethnolects and ethnically marked features.
In order to maximize impact, this work would benefit from both reorganization, rewriting and reworking.
I offer some general comments here and attach an annotated pdf of the paper with specific comments, questions and suggestions. Best of luck with this work!
Generally,
- review and clean up the writing. There is a lot of awkward phrasing that obfuscates the arguments and narrative.
- there are numerous organizational challenges. Reorganize to forefront the most relevant, interpretable results. Be sure to add text to link and narrate where the paper is going and review findings and remind the reader of results where relevant.
- make better use of tables (include relevant numbers and analyses and figures). Figures should facilitate presentation but aren’t necessary for all contexts. Where you use them, be sure that the type of figure is best to illustrate your data. Please also include tables with the results of your analyses where you refer to them. Rework some tables to ensure you present totals and percentages that facilitate interpretation.
- Justify the models used for analyses e.g, why include one factor at a time in a run but not others?
- As regards the social factors, the work would benefit from better argumentation and background/grounds for arguments about style and acquisition. Why is style (and in particular audience design relevant here? Is style actually the right model? Do speakers who use this most shift? or is it more accommodation to a feature that is not subject to style shifting?)
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Elaborate on the social factors and their context and the meaning of variation, including whether there is awareness of the feature in the community.
I include many more specific comments throughout the paper itself.
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