Corpus dialectology / edited Elissa Pustka, University of Vienna, Carmen Quijada Van den Berghe, University of Salamanca, Verena Weiland, University of Bonn.
Introduction / Verena Weiland, Carmen Quijada Van den Berghe & Elissa Pustka -- Data collection. On the validity of crowdsourced data / Anne Kruijt, Patrizia Cordin & Stefan Rabanus -- Variation in space and society: The case of interviewers and transcribers in a corpus of spoken French (ESLO) / Céline Dugua, Marie Skrovec, Gabriel Bergounioux & Olivier Baude -- Methodology. The Phonologie du français contemporain project in Quebec: methodological considerations and dialectometric application / Marie-Hélène Côté & Hugo Saint-Amant Lamy -- "Going Standard" on a blank page: a corpus-based approach to the written varieties of the Italian Western Alps minorities (Occitan, Francoprovençal and Walser) / Gianmario Raimondi, Marco Angster, Marco Bellante, Paolo Benedetto Mas, Raffaele Cioffi, Livio Gaeta, Aline Pons & Matteo Rivoira -- Sociogeographical differences in the pronunciation of Anglicisms in Spanish: acoustic vowel analysis using multilevel regression models / Linda Bäumler & Frederik Hartmann -- Case studies. Historical corpora and linguistic geography of Spanish: linguistic variation in Castile and León / Vicente J. Marcet Rodríguez & Manuel Nevot Navarro -- Dialectology as a matter of gradience: the case of Spanish aoristic present perfect through the Audible Corpus of Spoken Rural Spanish (COSER) / Borja Alonso Pascua -- Testing Twitter data on a morphosyntactic variable: the expression of the future in American and Peninsular Spanish / Andrés Enrique-Arias & Marina Gomila Albal -- Theory. Sketching out a virtual framework for Romance geolinguistics / Thomas Krefeld & Stephan Lücke.
Summary:
"Corpus Dialectology combines the fields of corpus linguistics and dialectological mapping. It concerns documentation of linguistic variation and mapping of linguistic spaces and boundaries, while ascribing renewed importance to the methodology and the material itself, especially data processing and statistical analysis. This approach considers phenomena that have received little attention to date, such as migration, language contact, mobility and educational level, as well as the differentiation between rural and urban spaces. Transparently described and intersubjectively comprehensible encodings permit the enhancement of dialectometry in the context of Digital Humanities and further development of linguistic theories of variation and change, as well as different levels of structure (phonology, morphosyntax, semantics). This book contains nine articles on ongoing corpus dialectological research projects. They discuss current issues of data collection, for example the validity of crowdsourced data, explore challenges and possibilities of data analysis and offer theoretical reflections on virtual Romance geolinguistics"-- Provided by publisher.
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