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Dialect Classification and Everyday Culture: A Case Study from Austria
LanguagesConsidering 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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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 +1 more
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Dialectometric analysis of language variation in Twitter
, 2017 In the last few years, microblogging platforms such as Twitter have given rise to a deluge of textual data that can be used for the analysis of informal communication between millions of individuals.
Donoso, Gonzalo, Sanchez, David
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Spatial evolution of human dialects [PDF]
, 2017 The geographical pattern of human dialects is a result of history. Here, we formulate a simple spatial model of language change which shows that the final result of this historical evolution may, to some extent, be predictable.
Burridge, James
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Unraveling the Overall Picture of Japanese Dialect Variation: What Factors Shape the Big Picture?
LanguagesWe 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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An application of distributional semantics for the analysis of the Holy Quran [PDF]
, 2016 In this contribution we illustrate the methodology and the results of an experiment we conducted by applying Distributional Semantics Models to the analysis of the Holy Quran.
Benotto, Giulia +2 more
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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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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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