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Title: | Non-Linguists' Judgments of Linguistic Distances Between Dialects | Contributor(s): | Gooskens, Charlotte (author) | Publication Date: | 2012 | Open Access: | Yes | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20669 | Open Access Link: | http://www.let.rug.nl/gooskens/pdf/publ_dialectologia_2012.pdf | Abstract: | This study explores the relative contribution of geographic and objective linguistic distances to the perceived and estimated linguistic distances between Norwegian dialects as judged by non-linguists. The perceived linguistic distances were quantified by playing recordings of fifteen Norwegian dialects to groups of subjects from the same fifteen places and having them judge the linguistic distance of each dialect to their own dialect. The estimated linguistic distances were collected by asking the subjects to judge the distances on the basis of the place names only. Geographic distances were quantified as straight line distances and as traveling times from the year 1900. The objective linguistic distances were computed by means of the Levenshtein algorithm. The results show that non-linguists' preconceived ideas about linguistic distances are based mainly on geographic information while both linguistic and geographic information play a role when they judge distances on the basis of dialect samples. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Dialectologia, v.9, p. 27-51 | Publisher: | Universitat de Barcelona | Place of Publication: | Spain | ISSN: | 2013-2247 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 209999 Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 450199 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and history not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 139999 Other culture and society not elsewhere classified | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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