marco@work - Various Variation Aggregates in the LAMSAS South

In Various Variation Aggregates in the LAMSAS South door John Nerbonne (t.a. 2005) wordt voorgesteld om dialectometrische karakteriseringen aan meer gedetailleerde linguistische typeringen te koppelen door over een taalkundig relevante deelverzameling van de data te aggregeren ('data set restrictie'). Op deze wijze kan inzicht worden verkregen in het relatieve belang van de taalkundige parameters in de subset. Een probleem is echter het achterhalen van de mate van redundantie in de data set.

Abstract:
"Techniques for analyzing variation in the aggregate have improved considerably over the past several years, but we still have no techniques which allow one to extract linguistic structure from aggregate comparison. The present paper explores one means of comparing aggregate analyses and linguistically motivated restrictions, essentially the technique of aggregating over a restricted input set. Using the Southern states data which Guy Lowman collected as part of the LAMSAS, we compare aggregate analyses restricted to vowel differences to those using the complete data set."