Phonology and morphology in Dutch indefinite determiner syncretism: Spatial and quantitative perspectives

Tamminga, Meredith

doi:10.1017/jlg.2013.10

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“…Below, we provide a brief description of the workflow involved in identifying statistical "hotspots" from the raw survey data and producing the smoothed dialect maps that appear in Section 3. Similar methods of hotspot analysis have been used in earlier studies of regional patterns of phonetic (Grieve et al, 2013), morphological (Tamminga, 2013), lexical (Grieve, Speelman & Geeraerts, 2011), and syntactic (Bart, Glaser, Sibler & Weibel, 2013;Wood, 2019) variation.…”

Section: Mapping and Quantitative Analysismentioning

confidence: 96%

Towards an updated dialect atlas of British English

MacKenzie

Bailey

Turton

2022

J. of Ling. Geography

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This paper presents the results of a survey of phonological, lexical, and morphosyntactic variation in British English, based on over 14,000 responses. We map twelve variables using geospatial “hotspot” analysis. One of our aims is to document the patterning of under- and unstudied variables. A second aim is to track changes in real time, which we do by comparing our findings to those of the 1950s-era Survey of English Dialects (SED; Orton, 1962). We improve upon previous dialectological work by paying careful attention to the phonemic status of mergers and splits: In our contemporary data, we do this by asking subjects if they have a phonemic contrast; in the SED data, we do this by superimposing the isoglosses for individual phones. We find evidence for both stability and change; we document previously unverified patterns. Perhaps most importantly, we identify a number of directions for future research.

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Section: Mapping and Quantitative Analysismentioning

confidence: 96%

Towards an updated dialect atlas of British English

MacKenzie

Bailey

Turton

2022

J. of Ling. Geography

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“…Bungis appears to be the most common variant in the western settlements (excluding the influence of Alsatian Texas German in the southwest), while Pumpkin dominates in the eastern settlements. We can test the statistical reliability of these clusters with measures of global and local spatial autocorrelation using the Moran's I and Getis-Ord G* statistics (Grieve et al, 2011;Zanuttini et al, 2018;Tamminga, 2013).…”

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When Wurst comes to Wurscht: Variation and koiné formation in Texas German

Lindemann

2019

J. of Ling. Geography

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Texas German is a new world language variety that shows some evidence of koiné development but also presents with substantial variation at many levels of structure. I present a case study on the variant pronunciation of sibilants in Texas German consonant clusters. This feature is fairly frequent and found throughout the regions of German settlement in Central Texas. After a discussion of the presence of this feature in the donor dialects, I investigate the factors that correlate with variation in the modern language. From an analysis of local and global spatial autocorrelation, I argue that variation is not significantly associated with particular geographic regions and is compatible with stable and homogenous variation. This provides insight into our understanding of new dialect emergence and the mechanisms by which dialect features are leveled over multiple generations.

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“…But it is not always clear whether a geographic pattern is statistically reliable. One useful tool for this is the G i * statistic (Grieve et al 2011;Tamminga 2013), referred to as a "hot spot" analysis in ArcGIS, the software we use for mapping and geospatial analysis. The hot spots test is conducted for each data point.…”

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The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: Morphosyntactic variation in North American English

Zanuttini

Wood

Zentz

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Linguistics Vanguard

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Abstract:The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project approaches the empirical domain of North American English from the perspective of generative microcomparative syntax. In addition to eliciting judgments from speakers of particular varieties, we also conduct large-scale surveys, map the results of those surveys geographically, conduct statistical tests taking geography and other social variables into account, and look for theoretically significant linguistic correlations. In all cases, we do this with the primary goal of understanding variation between speakers at the individual level. While our goals and methodologies are informed by our theoretical perspective, we expect that our work and results will be of interest to linguists working in other frameworks and even to the public more generally. This article outlines the goals and methodologies of the project and describes in broad strokes some of the results obtained so far, as well as some of the ways we have shared our findings with others, inside and outside academia.

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Phonology and morphology in Dutch indefinite determiner syncretism: Spatial and quantitative perspectives

Cited by 11 publications

References 17 publications

Towards an updated dialect atlas of British English

Towards an updated dialect atlas of British English

When Wurst comes to Wurscht: Variation and koiné formation in Texas German

The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: Morphosyntactic variation in North American English

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