Quantitative social dialectology: Explaining linguistic variation geographically and socially

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Wieling, Martijn ^a   Nerbonne, John ^a   Baayen, R Harald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; NETHERLANDS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VOWEL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; SOCIOLOGY; SPEECH; STATISTICS;

FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SOCIOLOGY; SPEECH;

EID: 80052377391     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023613     Document Type: Article

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