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This chapter investigates to what extent diatopic variation, which can be at best studied through dialects and non-standard varieties, constitutes a tool to reconstruct and understand diachronic change. By examining the relationship between synchronic diatopic and diachronic variation with respect to abstract trajectories of linguistic change in two ...
Federica Guerini
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Historiographia Linguistica, 1988 Summary This paper presents an historical sketch of Dutch dialectology in a twofold perspective: the national perspective, in which dialectology is an integral part of the study of Dutch, and the international perspective, in which Dutch dialectology participates in international developments in the field.
Anton M. Hagen
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, 2018 The field of dialectology, the study of the language of an area or group of people, has a long tradition within linguistics. From the earliest dialect studies, a focus on rigorous methodological practices has been an ever-present component of this discipline.
Becky Childs
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An Introduction to Ukrainian Dialectology
, 2017 The reasons which led me to write an introduction to Ukrainian dialectology are multifold. The main motiva-tion was to render available to a wide range of students of Slavic languages, and particularly of Ukrainian, an outline of Ukrainian dialectology and its dialects.
Salvatore Del Gaudio +1 more
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, 2013 This chapter examines how linguists have investigated the very obvious fact that different places house different dialects. We will not look at the results of such work nor how they have been used to answer linguistic and sociolinguistic questions (see ...
David Britain
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Toward a dialectological yardstick*
Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 2007Dialectometry measures the differences between dialects in ways which may involve many independently varying parameters which must be specified in combination in order to arrive at measures of difference. The existence of many parameters of measurement and their possible interaction introduces the problem of how to choose parameter values and ...
John Nerbonne, Peter Kleiweg
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Language and Linguistics Compass, 2009
Abstract Most studies of language variation proceed from the geographic or social distribution of single elements (features), and find it difficult to proceed further. Data‐driven dialectology, and more generally, data‐driven variationist studies, begin instead from an aggregate view of language variation and reap immediate benefits ...
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Abstract Most studies of language variation proceed from the geographic or social distribution of single elements (features), and find it difficult to proceed further. Data‐driven dialectology, and more generally, data‐driven variationist studies, begin instead from an aggregate view of language variation and reap immediate benefits ...
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1998
When first published in 1980, Dialectology broke new ground by integrating urban dialectology (sociolinguistics), dialect geography and spatial variation into a cohesive discipline. In this second edition, the authors take account of the renaissance of dialect research in the last twenty years.
J. K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill
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When first published in 1980, Dialectology broke new ground by integrating urban dialectology (sociolinguistics), dialect geography and spatial variation into a cohesive discipline. In this second edition, the authors take account of the renaissance of dialect research in the last twenty years.
J. K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill
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