Порівняння методів

	Діалектометрія	Внутрішня реконструкція
Галузь	Лінгвістика	Лінгвістика
Родина	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Рік появи	1973	1891
Автор методу	Jean Seguy	Henry Heffner Hock
Тип	Empirical process pipeline	Empirical process pipeline
Основоположне джерело	Seguy, J. (1973). La dialectométrie dans l'étude de l'espace linguistique. Revue de Linguistique Romane, 37, 1-24.	Hock, H. H. (1991). Principles of Historical Linguistics (2nd ed.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Інші назви	Linguistic Distance Measurement, Quantitative Dialect Analysis	Interlingual Reconstruction, Diachronic Morphology
Пов'язані	1	3
Підсумок	Dialectometry is a quantitative method for measuring linguistic distances between dialects or languages using objective metrics applied to phonological, lexical, or phonetic data. Pioneered by Jean Seguy in 1973, dialectometry compares word lists, pronunciations, or phonetic transcriptions across speech varieties to calculate similarity scores. The resulting distance matrices and dendrograms reveal patterns of dialect relatedness and geographic or social clustering. This method complements traditional dialectology and contributes to historical linguistics and sociolinguistics.	Internal Reconstruction is a historical linguistic method that reconstructs earlier stages of a single language by identifying internal inconsistencies, morphological irregularities, and distributional patterns within the language itself. Unlike the Comparative Method, which relies on comparing related languages, Internal Reconstruction uses evidence from within one language—such as suppletive forms, analogy-induced irregularities, and phonological asymmetries—to infer its historical structure and sound changes. This method is particularly valuable when only one written form of a language survives or when related languages are unavailable.