Measuring linguistic variation commensurably

Dialectologia

Volumn , Issue SPEC. ISSUE 2, 2011, Pages 141-162

  Wieling, Martijn ^a   Nerbonne, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Linguistic versus geographic distance; Normalizing transcriber differences; Pointwise Mutual Information; Sublinear curve; Transcription system reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052363938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20132247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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