Romanian online dialect atlas: Data capture and presentation

Embleton, Sheila; Urițescu, Dorin; Wheeler, Eric S.

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“…here presented, Romanian Online Dialect Atlas (RODA), is based on the experience of two computer experts athered while computerizing Finland Linguistic Atlas.9 For further information, see http://www.yorku.ca/vpaweb/ Romanian/index.htm andEmbleton et al 2007. the phonetic transcription system, which in Romanian dialectology tradition implies the usage of a large number of additional letters compared to the basic graphic system.…”

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The Romanian linguistic cartography in the digitizing era: the electronic atlases

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2014

Dialectologia Et Geolinguistica

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The three series of national linguistic atlases (WLAD, ALR and NALR) proof that the Romanian linguistic cartography has one of the richest and most important traditions in Europe, fact acknowledged by the linguistic community starting from the first half of the last century. This tradition continues nowadays with the digitization of the linguistic atlases. The first achievement in this direction is the release in 2007 of the third volume from series NALR. Moldavia and Bukovina with the help of bespoke software built in collaboration by linguists and computer scientists from Iasi Branch of the Romanian Academy. Another project in the same field, done by a Romanian-Canadian team, is the Online Romanian Dialect Atlas which plans to build an interactive database for dialects using a multidimensional scaling statistical technique. The Bukovina Audiovisual Linguistic Atlas (ALAB) is the most recent project for a digital atlas of the Romanian academic community and it is based in the research centre from Iasi. The ALAB project, started in 2010, plans to build, for the first time in Romania, an audio-video atlas centred on sociolinguistic features. This atlas will present, with the help of online support in one interface, diatopic, diastratic (diasexual and diagenerational), and possible diaphasic variations on dialect level. 0. The linguistic geography, as a privileged method of dialectal research, benefits from a vast tradition of works in the field, beginning with the emergence of the first linguistic atlases more than one hundred years. The twentieth century was a period of maximum effervescence regarding the design and development of linguistic cartography projects that targeted either smaller territories (regional atlases), or extended areas (starting with national atlases up to projects such as ALE or ALiR). This unceasing and dynamic research has made for the linguistic geography to benefit from a well set up status in the vast panoply of the language sciences.Even if this research direction displays remarkable achievements at the European level, there were voices at the end of the last century trying to put into question either the methods or even the object of study of dialectology, _________________________

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