Dialectometric Distance Analysis
Dialectometry is the quantitative measurement of how linguistically different dialect sites are from one another, aggregated across many features at once. Pioneered by Jean Séguy in the early 1970s and developed by Hans Goebl in Salzburg and John Nerbonne in Groningen, it takes the rich response data of traditional dialect atlases and computes, for every pair of survey sites, a single number summarizing their overall linguistic distance. These pairwise distances are then clustered and mapped, turning a sprawling atlas of individual features into an aggregate picture of dialect landscapes, continua, and boundaries that no single feature could reveal.
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- Séguy, J. (1971). La relation entre la distance spatiale et la distance lexicale. Revue de Linguistique Romane, 35, 335–357. · URL
- Nerbonne, J., Heeringa, W., & Kleiweg, P. (1999). Edit distance and dialect proximity. In D. Sankoff & J. Kruskal (Eds.), Time Warps, String Edits and Macromolecules (pp. v–xv). CSLI. · ISBN 9781575862170
- Goebl, H. (2006). Recent advances in Salzburg dialectometry. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 21(4), 411–435. · DOI 10.1093/llc/fql042
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