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NEW METHODS OF CLUSTERING THE PROSODIC VARIATION OF ITALO-ROMANCE DIALECTS

RiCognizioni, 2018
As suggested by several authors (among those, Contini 1991), prosodic variation may be analysed in a dialectometrical perspective, leading to the construction of geoprosodic maps.
Valentina De Iacovo
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"Linguistic Geography of Breton and Sociocultural Motivations" [PDF]

, 2012
International audienceIn this paper I discuss various issues directly related to the study of Breton dialects, and to the practice of linguistic geography.
Costaouec, Denis
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Diatech: tool for making dialectometry easier

Dialectologia: revista electrònica, 2016
Diatech is a web application to analyze linguistic differences in a quantitative exploration in a friendly way, allowing users even if they have not computational expertise. The application conceived as a tool which provides all tools that a dialectologist needs when his objective is to draw conceptual maps (the occurrence of individual features), to ...
Aurrekoetxea, Gotzon, Santander, Gotzon, Usobiaga, Iker, Iglesias, Aitor   +3 more
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Des pages d’un atlas linguistique à une fenêtre sur l’histoire, le cas du breton. Résultats d’une analyse dialectométrique appliquée au Nouvel Atlas linguistique de la Basse‑Bretagne

Géolinguistique, 2021
This article analyses the Breton phonetic data provided by Jean Le Dû’s Nouvel Atlas linguistique de la Basse‑Bretagne. It is studied from the standpoint of a concept called “linguistic distance”.
Tanguy Solliec
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Dialect Classification and Everyday Culture: A Case Study from Austria

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Considering dialect areas as cultural areas has a long tradition in dialectology. Especially in the first half of the 20th century, researchers explored correspondences between dialect variation and other elements of everyday culture such as traditional ...
Philip C. Vergeiner
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Understanding Dialectal Variation in Contact Scenarios Through Dialectometry: Insights from Inner Asia Minor Greek

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This study investigates the interplay between linguistic and extralinguistic factors in language contact scenarios, focusing on inner Asia Minor Greek (iAMGr), a dialect cluster influenced by Turkish and isolated from other Greek-speaking regions.
Stavros Bompolas, Dimitra Melissaropoulou   +1 more
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Creation of regions for dialect features using a cellular automaton [PDF]

, 2016
An issue in dialect research has been how to make generalizations from survey data about where some dialect feature might be found. Pre-computational methods included drawing isoglosses or using shadings to indicate areas where an analyst expected a ...
Juuso, Ilkka, Kretzschmar Jr., William A.   +1 more
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Unraveling the Overall Picture of Japanese Dialect Variation: What Factors Shape the Big Picture?

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We studied the Japanese dialect by calculating aggregated PMI Levenshtein distances among local Japanese dialects using data from 2400 locations and 141 items from the Linguistic Atlas of Japan Database (LAJDB).
Wilbert Heeringa, Fumio Inoue
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Measuring languageness: Fact-checking and debunking a few common myths

Dive-In, 2021
The article critically discusses a few common objections to an intrinsic, language-internal definition of what constitutes a ‘language’ (and, conversely, a ‘dialect’). It argues that, contra postmodernism (1.), languages do exist, they can be counted and
Mauro Tosco
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Le traitement dialectométrique du corpus Bourciez de 1895

Géolinguistique, 2017
This contribution shows the way to carry out the geolinguistic exploitation of texts gathered in 19th century by É. Bourciez, using different automatic tools. After typing the manuscript in a word processor, we used “Simple Concordance Program” to create
Gotzon Aurrekoetxea, Charles Videgain
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