Course | Introduction to Dialectometry (2024)
2. Measuring Dialect Distances & Distance Matrices
- Date
- Tuesday 12 March 2024
- Time
- Series
- Introduction to Dialectometry (2024)
- Location
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P.J. Veth
Nonnensteeg 1-3
2311 VJ Leiden - Room
- The Digital Lab in P.J. Veth 1.07
2. Measuring Dialect Distances & Distance Matrices (12 March)
Instead of using isoglosses to assess the relationship between dialects, dialectometry is interested in calculating ‘dialect distances’, i.e. how much a dialect differs from another. There are numerous ways to calculate dialect distances (depending on your data), but this workshop will focus on several methods which are often found in the literature, e.g. Relative Distance Value (Goebl 2018) and Levenshtein Distance (Heeringa 2004).
Once we have obtained dialect distances, we can use then perform further analyses by doing 1) reference-point analyses, correlative dialectometry and making parameter maps, and 2) perform cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling. In this workshop, we will look at the analyses stated in 1).