Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/22231
Title: Perception of geographically conditioned linguistic variation
Contributor(s): Gooskens, Charlotte  (author); Bezooijen, Renee van (author); Nerbonne, John (author)
Publication Date: 2013
DOI: 10.1515/9783110261332.567
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/22231
Abstract: Over the course of several decades, geographically conditioned linguistic variation in the Netherlands and the Dutch speaking part of Belgium has been investigated from many different perspectives. In our view, the various methodological approaches can be divided into two fundamentally different types. In the first type, data about the linguistic characteristics of dialects are usually gathered by means of questionnaires, sometimes on the basis of recordings of conversational speech, collecting information about what people actually say. The linguistic products, recorded in written or auditory form, are subsequently subjected to (simple or more complex) data analysis techniques. The final goal of such work is to draw a linguistically based map showing the distribution and boundaries of dialect features and dialect areas. Some of the more well-known examples of these 'objective' techniques include the construction and tracing of isoglosses and isogloss bundles (e.g. Weijnen 1941), feature frequency counts and correlations (Hoppenbrouwers and Hoppenbrouwers 2001) and the calculation of Levenshtein distances between matched segment strings (e.g. Heeringa 2004). These traditional-dialectological and computational techniques have been discussed elsewhere (see the contributions by Niebaum and Taeldeman, and by Heeringa and Nerbonne) in this book and will not be discussed here.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Dutch, v.3, p. 567-586
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Place of Publication: Berlin, Germany
ISBN: 9783110180053
9783110261332
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 200499 Linguistics not elsewhere classified
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 470499 Linguistics 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
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Series Name: Language and Space: An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation
Series Number : 30
Editor: Editor(s): Frans Hinskens and Johan Taeldeman
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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