Computing and Language Variation
International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing Volume 2
Published on 4. December 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
268 pages
978-0-7486-4030-0 (ISBN)
Description
Computing and Language Variation explores dialects and social differences in language computationally, examining topics such as how (and how much) linguistic differences impede intelligibility, how national borders accelerate and direct change, how opinion and hearsay shape perceptions of language differences, the role of intonation (melody), the differences between variation in pronunciation and vocabulary, and techniques for recognizing structure in larger collections of linguistic data. The computational investigations engage more traditional work deeply, and a panel discussion focuses on the opportunities and risks of pursuing humanities research using computational science. There is also an extensive introduction which attempts to sketch perspectives from which to approach the individual contributions.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
59 black and white illustrations, 44 black and white tables
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-4030-0 (9780748640300)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Professor, University of Groningen Associate Professor, University of Groningen Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg University of Groningen
Content
Introduction: Language Variation Studies and Computational Humanities, John Nerbonne, Charlotte Gooskens, Sebastian Kuerschner and Renee van Bezooijen; Panel Discussion on Computing and the Humanities, John Nerbonne, Paul Heggarty, Roeland van Hout and David Robey; Making Sense of Strange Sounds: (Mutual Intelligibility of Related Language Varieties. A Review, Vincent van Heuven; Phonetic and Lexical Predictors of Intelligibility, Charlotte Gooskens, Wilbert Heeringa and Karin Beijering; Linguistic Determinants of the Intelligibility of Swedish Words among Danes, Sebastian Kuerschner, Charlotte Gooskens and Renee van Bezooijen; Mutual Intelligibility of Standard and Regional Dutch Language Varieties, Leen Impe, Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman; The Dutch-German Border: Relating Linguistic, Geographic and Social Distances, Folkert de Vriendt, Charlotte Giesbers, Roeland van Hout, and Louis ten Bosch; The Space of Tuscan Dialectal Variation: A Correlation Study, Simonetta Montemagni; Recognising Groups among Dialects, Jelena Proki? and John Nerbonne; Comparison of Component Models in Analysing the Distribution of Dialectal Features, Antti Leino and Saara Hyvoenen; Factor Analysis of Vowel Pronunciation in Swedish Dialects, Therese Leinonen; Representing Tone in Levenshtein Distance, Cathryn Yang and Andy Castro; The Role of Concept Characteristics in Lexical Dialectometry, Dirk Speelman and Dirk Geeraerts; What Role does Dialect Knowledge Play in the Perception of Linguistic Distances?, Wilbert Heeringa, Charlotte Gooskens and Koenraad De Smedt; Quantifying Dialect Similarity by Comparison of the Lexical Distribution of Phonemes, Warren Maguire; Corpus-based Dialectometry: Aggregate Morphosyntactic Variability in British English Dialects, Benedikt Szmercsanyi.