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Abstract Hoekstra

Certain Dutch construction types are much more frequent in spoken than in written language. Topic drop sentences such as (1) and constructions as in (2) (we might call them `mirror sentences') are relatively common in spoken language but rare in written prose (with the exception, perhaps, of the most informal of text types such as Internet chat).

    (1) doen we
    do we `(we agree that) we'll do that'

    (2) je moet heel snel moet je weer wisselen
    you must very soon must you again change
    `you have to change again very soon'
In this paper we present some preliminary quantitative and qualitative results with respect to typical spoken language phenomena in various subcorpora of the Spoken Dutch Corpus (CGN).

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