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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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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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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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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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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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Cohesion and Particularity in the Spanish Dialect Continuum

Open Linguistics, 2018
This paper studies the degree of cohesion among varieties of Spanish, proposing an analysis of Spanish dialectal variation and the internal cohesion of varieties using the Varilex-R database (2016).
Fernández Francisco Moreno, Ueda Hiroto
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Le parcours de Th. Lalanne : du recueil de données (1947-1952) aux cartes synthétiques de l’Atlas linguistique de la Gascogne maritime

Géolinguistique, 2016
From Lalanne–1950 to Séguy–1973 (ALG 6 Gasconish Dialectometry), there is a long way. From Lalanne Maritim Gasconish dialectal data base to Linguistic Gradual Sets and Fuzzy Subsets (ALG 6 phonetic data; phonological data; morphosyntactic data; lexical ...
Jean-Louis Fossat
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Grouping Spanish-speaking countries by dialect: A corpus dialectometric approach

Isogloss, 2022
The present study attempts to cluster Spanish-speaking countries into dialect regions by computational means. The frequencies of 592 lexical and grammatical features for 21 countries were obtained the from Corpus del Español-Web Dialects.
David Ellingson Eddington
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Water and Sheep: The Pronunciation and Geographical Distribution of Two Germanic Vowels in the Dialects Around the Former Zuiderzee Area

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The Zuiderzee area in the Netherlands is a former inlet sea at the heart of the crossroads of three major regional languages. While these regional languages are largely distinct, previous work by the dialectologist Kloeke indicated similarities due to ...
Floris Nijhuis, John L. A. Huisman, Roeland van Hout   +2 more
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