Grieve, Jack, Speelman, Dirk and Geeraerts, Dirk (2011). A statistical method for the identification and aggregation of regional linguistic variation. Language Variation and Change, 23 (2), pp. 193-221.
Abstract
This paper introduces a method for the analysis of regional linguistic variation. The method identifies individual and common patterns of spatial clustering in a set of linguistic variables measured over a set of locations based on a combination of three statistical techniques: spatial autocorrelation, factor analysis, and cluster analysis. To demonstrate how to apply this method, it is used to analyze regional variation in the values of 40 continuously measured, high-frequency lexical alternation variables in a 26-million-word corpus of letters to the editor representing 206 cities from across the United States.
| Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S095439451100007X |
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| Divisions: | ?? 53981500Jl ?? College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics |
| Additional Information: | © Cambridge University Press |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | regional linguistic variation,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Education |
| Publication ISSN: | 1469-8021 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Apr 2024 07:10 |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Aug 2019 10:15 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
| Published Date: | 2011-07 |
| Authors: |
Grieve, Jack
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0000-0003-3630-7349)
Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk |
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