Aggregating Dialectology, Typology, and Register Analysis : : Linguistic Variation in Text and Speech / / ed. by Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Bernhard Wälchli.

This volume aims to overcome sub-disciplinary boundaries in the study of linguistic variation - be it language-internal or cross-linguistic. Even though dialectologists, register analysts, typologists, and quantitative linguists all deal with linguistic variation, there is astonishingly little inter...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:linguae & litterae : Publications of the School of Language and Literature Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies , 28
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Physical Description:1 online resource (472 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The text-feature-aggregation pipeline in variation studies
  • Convergence between dialect varieties and dialect groups in the Dutch language area
  • A comparison of statistical methods for the aggregation of regional linguistic variation
  • Forests, trees, corpora, and dialect grammars
  • Feature-based versus aggregate analyses of the DECTE corpus: Phonological and morphological variability in Tyneside English
  • Complex systems in aggregated variation analyses
  • A weakly supervised multivariate approach to the study of language variation
  • Semantic weighting mechanisms in scalable lexical sociolectometry
  • Temperature in the word space: Sense exploration of temperature expressions using word-space modelling
  • The perfect map: Investigating the cross-linguistic distribution of TAME categories in a parallel corpus
  • Explorations into variation across Slavic: Taking a bottom-up approach
  • Where Alice fell into: Motion events from a parallel corpus
  • Algorithmic typology and going from known to similar unknown categories within and across languages
  • Inducing place distinctions of consonants from their distribution in words
  • Laws of language and text in quantitative and synergetic linguistics
  • Appendix
  • Author index