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The Role of Concept Characteristics in Lexical Dialectometry

International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 2008
In this paper the role of concept characteristics in lexical dialectometric research is examined in three consecutive logical steps. First, a regression analysis of data taken from a large lexical database of Limburgish dialects in Belgium and The Netherlands is conducted to illustrate that concept characteristics such as concept salience, concept ...
Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts
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33. Dialectometry

2013
Wilbert Heeringa, John Nerbonne
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22. Dialectometry and Quantitative Mapping

2010
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Corpus-based dialectometry: a methodological sketch

Corpora, 2011
In this paper, I introduce methodologies to tap corpora for exploring aggregate linguistic distances between dialects or varieties as a function of properties of geographic space. The paper describes the different steps necessary to obtain an appropriate corpus-based dataset (a so-called ‘distance matrix’), and subsequently discusses several ...
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Further Contributions to Romance Dialectometry

2023
Abstract Jean Séguy and Hans Goebl were the founders both of Romance dialectometry and of dialectometry in general, which focused largely on Romance languages in its early years. While other attention to dialects had appealed to scholarly intuition to adduce the principles behind the geographic distribution of linguistic variation ...
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Lalo regional varieties: phylogeny, dialectometry, and sociolinguistics

2023
Lalo is a Central Ngwi (Loloish) language cluster spoken in western Yunnan, China by fewer than 300,000 speakers. The purpose of this thesis is to subgroup Lalo regional varieties according to shared innovations that are unlikely to have occurred by chance, contact, or drift.
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Romance linguistic geography and dialectometry

2016
Abstract This chapter focuses on the diachronic and synchronic relation between language and space, critically considering some of the most important advances made within Romance linguistic geography and dialectometry. It reviews the early work of the dialect geographers in recording regional variation by means of detailed linguistic ...
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Dialectometry-Based Classification of the Central–Southern Italian Dialects

Journal of Linguistic Geography
AbstractThis paper provides a new classification of Central–Southern Italian dialects using dialectometric methods. All varieties considered are analyzed and cast in a data set where homogeneous areas are evaluated according to a selected list of phonetic features.
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Current Trends in Dialectometry: The Handling of Synonym Feature Realizations

Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization, 1997
Dialectometry has to deal to a certain extent with synonym feature realizations on the nominal scale. Generating a similarity matrix out of these data outlines some fundamental problems in handling synonyms. Apart from a general discussion of possible approaches, this paper describes all similarity indexes actually used in dialectometry, which include ...
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Automatic Validation of Hierarchical Cluster Analysis with Application in Dialectometry

2005
Successful applications of hierarchical cluster analysis in the area of quantitative linguistics were reported in the pioneering works by Goebl (1982, 1984, 1994). Often the dimensionality of linguistic data is high. Therefore multivariate statistical techniques like cluster analysis can to some degree support the researcher. However there is much room
Hans-Joachim Mucha, Edgar Haimerl
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