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Unraveling the Overall Picture of Japanese Dialect Variation: What Factors Shape the Big Picture?

Languages
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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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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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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Water and Sheep: The Pronunciation and Geographical Distribution of Two Germanic Vowels in the Dialects Around the Former Zuiderzee Area

Languages
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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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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Lexical meaning and spatial distribution. Evidence from geostatistical dialectometry [PDF]

, 2019
The relation between the semantic meaning of a lexical variable and the spatial distribution of its variants has been a common field of interest in traditional German dialectology throughout the past century. In the literature in question, several claims

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Revisiting Southern Gallo-Romance from a complexity theory standpoint: Occitan

Frontiers 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

Journal 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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