A comparison of statistical methods for the aggregation of regional linguistic variation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: The text-feature-aggregation pipeline in variation studies 1
4. Convergence between dialect varieties and dialect groups in the Dutch language area 26
5. A comparison of statistical methods for the aggregation of regional linguistic variation 53
6. Forests, trees, corpora, and dialect grammars 89
7. Feature-based versus aggregate analyses of the DECTE corpus: Phonological and morphological variability in Tyneside English 113
8. Complex systems in aggregated variation analyses 150
9. A weakly supervised multivariate approach to the study of language variation 174
10. Semantic weighting mechanisms in scalable lexical sociolectometry 205
11. Temperature in the word space: Sense exploration of temperature expressions using word-space modelling 231
12. The perfect map: Investigating the cross-linguistic distribution of TAME categories in a parallel corpus 268
13. Explorations into variation across Slavic: Taking a bottom-up approach 290
14. Where Alice fell into: Motion events from a parallel corpus 324
15. Algorithmic typology and going from known to similar unknown categories within and across languages 355
16. Inducing place distinctions of consonants from their distribution in words 394
17. Laws of language and text in quantitative and synergetic linguistics 426
18. Appendix 451
19. Author index 467