The study analyzes dialect changes in the former lower East Frankish border areas based on voice recordings from five corpora during the period from 1930 to 2014. Using an "apparent-time comparison" (with data from three age-groups) it also examines whether Itzgründisch speakers still perceive a mental boundary along the former political borders or if the region is perceived as homogeneous.

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Verena Sauer, University of Kiel, Germany.