Taal en Tongval - Volume 75, Issue 1, 2023

Abstract Large phonetic corpora are frequently used to investigate language variation and change in dialects, but these corpora are often constructed by many researchers in a collaborative effort. This typically results in inter-transcriber issues that may impact the reliability of analyses using these data. This problem is exacerbated when multiple phonetic corpora are compared when investigating real time dialect chang Read More

Abstract Recent work in dialectometry has proposed the use of linear mixed-effects regression (LMER) for analysing full distance matrices. While the outcomes are promising, work is needed to confirm that such outcomes are valid, given that the analysis of distance matrices using this method is not established. The current contribution provides a supporting framework for this approach by testing its validity through a s Read More