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Cohesion and Particularity in the Spanish Dialect Continuum

open access: yesOpen 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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Measuring languageness: Fact-checking and debunking a few common myths

open access: yesDive-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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Water and Sheep: The Pronunciation and Geographical Distribution of Two Germanic Vowels in the Dialects Around the Former Zuiderzee Area

open access: yesLanguages
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   +2 more
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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

open access: yesGéolinguistique, 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

open access: yesIsogloss, 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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Revisiting Southern Gallo-Romance from a complexity theory standpoint: Occitan

open access: yesFrontiers in Complex Systems
In this paper, the inner structure of the Occitan dialect network is revisited in the light of a range of cumulative (Ward’s method) vs. reductive (Complete linkage, Groupe Average, Weighted Average) hierarchical algorithms provided by Gabmap, an Online ...
Jean Léo Léonard
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Determinants of language change in the Gurage area of Ethiopia

open access: yesJournal of World Languages, 2023
This study aims to examine linguistic and non-linguistic determinants that contribute to language change in the Gurage area of Ethiopia. The linguistic and non-linguistic determinants were investigated by combining methods of dialectometry and mutual ...
Feleke Tekabe Legesse
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Variasi Leksikal Bahasa Sasak di Kecamatan Karangasem: Kajian Dialektologi

open access: yesHumanis, 2021
This article discusses the lexical variations of the Sasak language in Karangasem. The reason for choosing this object, is to explain the various dialects used by the community in the villages of Tumbu, Tegal Linggah, and Bukit, Karangasem.
Zulkarnaen .   +2 more
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CLDF dataset derived from Yang's "Lalo Regional Varieties" from 2011

open access: yes, 2019
Cite the source dataset as Yang, Cathryn (2011): Lalo regional varieties: Phylogeny, dialectometry and sociolinguistics.
Cathryn Yang
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Seven stages of Lithuanian dialectology

open access: yesLietuvių Kalba, 2016
This article is a continuation of ongoing debate on the development of Lithuanian dialectology, the issues of which were first addressed and published in 2015.
Vytautas Kardelis
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