The Nordic Dialect Corpus – a joint research infrastructure

Johannessen, Janne Bondi

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“…Larsson et al (2015) used the language of Mrs Friesendahl as an example of the rather rapid dialect leveling in Heritage Swedish. In addition, the Nordic Dialect Corpus (Johannessen et al, 2009) was used to get data from the relevant dialects in Scandinavia, both Norwegian and Swedish, for the purpose of comparison.…”

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Stability and Change in Grammatical Gender: Pronouns in Heritage Scandinavian

Johannessen

Larsson

2018

J. Lang. Contact

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Previous studies on gender in Scandinavian heritage languages in America have looked at noun-phrase internal agreement. It has been shown that some heritage speakers have non-target gender agreement, but this has been interpreted in different ways by different researchers. This paper presents a study of pronominal gender in Heritage Norwegian and Swedish, using existing recordings and a small experiment that elicits pronouns. It is shown that the use of pronominal forms is largely target-like, and that the heritage speakers make gender distinctions. There is, however, some evidence of two competing systems in the data, and there is a shift towards a two-gender system, arguably due to koinéization.

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Stability and Change in Grammatical Gender: Pronouns in Heritage Scandinavian

Johannessen

Larsson

2018

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“…The transcripts are linked to audio and video, the corpus has a map function, and can be searched in a variety of ways, using syntactic, PoS annotations and lemmatization. The corpus is a general one, even though the original aim of the corpus was to focus on syntax (Johannessen et al 2009, 2014. The ArchiMob 4 corpus of Swiss German dialects (Samardžić et al 2016;Scherrer et al 2019) contains over 500,000 tokens of transcribed text intended for the analysis of the geographic distribution of morphosyntax and natural language processing.…”

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Representing variation in a spoken corpus of an endangered dialect: the case of Torlak

Vuković

2021

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The paper presents a spoken corpus of the endangered Torlak dialect from the Timok area of Southeast Serbia. This dialect expresses a great deal of variation in the use of non-standard features under the influence of standard Serbian (SSr). Accounting for this variation, a specific methodology has been selected for collection, sampling, transcription and annotation. Between 2015 and 2017, semi-structured interviews were conducted in the field eliciting spontaneous speech in the form of long narratives about traditional culture and history. The corpus comprises 500,697 tokens of semi-orthographic transcripts representing 80 h of recording from locations evenly distributed across the Timok area of the Torlak dialect zone, thus enabling a spatial contrastive analysis. The majority of speakers in the corpus are older people whose language represents the highly non-standard variety. In order to allow for analysis of language change under the influence of SSr, the corpus includes a number of younger people whose speech is closer to SSr. Tools for automatic PoS annotation and lemmatization that were lacking were developed based on the existing resources for SSr. For tagger training, a dialect sample of 27,000 manually verified tokens was merged with an existing training set for SSr.

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“…Such a survey does not exist either. The closest we come to the language of that period, with a corpus-based study, is the dialectal speech in the Nordic Dialect Corpus (Johannessen et al 2009), which includes recordings of speakers of at least 70 years of age made in [2007][2008]. In this corpus, the gender agreement is extremely consistent: A common prenominal determiner with a neuter noun is only found in 0.004% of all cases (and there are no have expressions of gender but govern the manifestation of gender (common or neuter) in morphemes that can express this category and that are in a syntactic or morphological relation with a noun.…”

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Argentine Danish Grammatical Gender: Stability with Strongly Patterned Variation

Kühl

Petersen

2021

J Ger Ling

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This paper investigates the expression of grammatical gender in Heritage Argentine Danish. We examine a subset of the Corpus of South American Danish of approximately 20,500 tokens of gender marking produced by 90 speakers. The results show that Argentine Danish gender marking in general complies with the Standard Denmark Danish rules. However, there is also systematic variation: While there is hardly any difference compared to Standard Denmark Danish with respect to the definite suffix, gender marking on prenominal determiners differs from that in Standard Danish. More specifically, the less frequent neuter gender is more vulnerable, and common gender tends to be overgeneralized. Further, complex NPs with attributive adjectives show more variation in gender marking on prenominal determiners than simple NPs. As to sociolinguistic variation, the analysis shows that tokens produced by older speakers and speakers from settlements with a higher degree of language maintenance are consistent to a higher degree with Standard Danish gender marking. The paper compares these results with the results of studies of gender marking variation in other Germanic heritage languages. We conclude that the overall stability of grammatical gender in the Germanic heritage languages is a general pattern that only partly relates to social or societal factors.*

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The Nordic Dialect Corpus – a joint research infrastructure

Cited by 15 publications

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Stability and Change in Grammatical Gender: Pronouns in Heritage Scandinavian

Stability and Change in Grammatical Gender: Pronouns in Heritage Scandinavian

Representing variation in a spoken corpus of an endangered dialect: the case of Torlak

Argentine Danish Grammatical Gender: Stability with Strongly Patterned Variation

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