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Progress in Dialectometry: Toward Explanation

Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2006
Dialectometric techniques analyze linguistic variation quantitatively, allowing one to aggregate over what are frequently rebarbative geographic patterns of individual linguistic variants, such as which word is used for a particular concept in a language area, or which sounds are used in particular words.
J. Nerbonne, W. Kretzschmar
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Introducing Computational Techniques in Dialectometry

Computers and the Humanities, 2003
Dialectology is the study of dialects, and dialectometry is the measurement of dialect differences, i.e. linguistic differences whose distribution is determined primarily by geography. The earliest works in dialectology showed that language variation is complex both geographically and linguistically and cannot be reduced to simple characterizations ...
Nerbonne, J, Kretzschmar, W
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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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Dialectometry Analysis of Language Varieties in Yazd Province

Atoosa Rostambeik
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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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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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Corpus-based Low Saxon dialectometry

In this corpus-based study, we explore how the similarity of Low Saxon dialectsamong each other and to the state languages Dutch and German has changed fromthe 19th century to today. In particular, we want to investigate if the traditionalclassification into an eastern and a western group is visible in the data and if theLow Saxon dialects can be found
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Phonetics, corpus linguistics & dialectometry

2019
Visible Vowels is a tool for the visualization of vowel variation, developed by Wilbert Heeringa and Hans Van de Velde at the Fryske Akademy in Leeuwarden, and freely available at: visiblevowels.org. Dr. Heeringa will give a demo of the program. Subsequently colleagues can try out the program by using their own data or by an example data set provided ...
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33. Dialectometry

2013
Wilbert Heeringa, John Nerbonne
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Current Trends in Dialectometry: The Handling of Synonym Feature Realizations

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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