Quantitative social dialectology: explaining linguistic variation geographically and socially.

In this study we examine linguistic variation and its dependence on both social and geographic factors. We follow dialectometry in applying a quantitative methodology and focusing on dialect distances, and social dialectology in the choice of factors we examine in building a model to predict word pr...

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Main Authors: Martijn Wieling, John Nerbonne, R Harald Baayen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3164663?pdf=render