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The future of dialects
Selected papers from Methods in Dialectology XV
Remco Knooihuizen, John Nerbonne, Marie-Hélène Côté (editors)

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digital: 978-3-946234-18-0
hardcover: 978-3-946234-19-7
softcover: 978-3-946234-20-3

DOI

DOI: 10.17169/langsci.b81.78
Published: 20160208

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. 2016. The future of dialects : Selected papers from Methods in Dialectology XV. (Language Variation 1). Berlin: Language Science Press.
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address = {Berlin},
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About this book

Traditional dialects have been encroached upon by the increasing mobility of their speakers and by the onslaught of national languages in education and mass media. Typically, older dialects are “leveling” to become more like national languages. This is regrettable when the last articulate traces of a culture are lost, but it also promotes a complex dynamics of interaction as speakers shift from dialect to standard and to intermediate compromises between the two in their forms of speech. Varieties of speech thus live on in modern communities, where they still function to mark provenance, but increasingly cultural and social provenance as opposed to pure geography. They arise at times from the need to function throughout the different groups in society, but they also may have roots in immigrants’ speech, and just as certainly from the ineluctable dynamics of groups wishing to express their identity to themselves and to the world. The future of dialects is a selection of the papers presented at Methods in Dialectology XV, held in Groningen, the Netherlands, 11-15 August 2014. While the focus is on methodology, the volume also includes specialized studies on varieties of Catalan, Breton, Croatian, (Belgian) Dutch, English (in the US, the UK and in Japan), German (including Swiss German), Italian (including Tyrolean Italian), Japanese, and Spanish as well as on heritage languages in Canada.

About Remco Knooihuizen

Remco Knooihuizen, Groningen, works on the sociolinguistics language change in situations of language and dialect contact. He has worked on contemporary and historical data sets from languages such as English, Dutch, Frisian and Faroese.

About John Nerbonne

John Nerbonne, Groningen & Freiburg, applies computational sequence distance measures to dialect pronunciations and also investigates the detection of groups in dialect data and statistics sensitive to both geographic influences and to social conditioning.

About Marie-Hélène Côté

Marie-Hélène Côté, Laval/Québec, specializes in phonology and variation in sound patterns. She has worked on several languages, in particular geographical variation in French, in the context of the project Phonologie du français contemporain

Chapters


1
Embracing the future of dialects
John Nerbonne, Remco Knooihuizen, Marie-Hélène Côté
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2
Heritage languages as new dialects
Naomi Nagy
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3
From diglossia to diaglossia
Anne-Sophie Ghyselen
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4
The future of Catalan dialects' syntax
Ares Llop Naya
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5
Fuzzy dialect areas and prototype theory
Simon Pickl
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6
On the problem of field worker isoglosses
Andrea Mathussek
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7
Tracking linguistic features underlying lexical variation patterns
Simonetta Montemagni, Martijn Wieling
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8
A new dialectometric approach applied to the Breton language
Guylaine Brun-Trigaud, Tanguy Solliec, Jean Le Dû
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9
Automatically identifying characteristic features of non-native English accents
John Nerbonne, Martijn Wieling, Jelke Bloem
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10
Mapping the perception of linguistic form
Tyler Kendall, Valerie Fridland
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11
Horizontal and vertical variation in Swiss German morphosyntax
Philipp Stoeckle
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12
Infrequent forms
Noise or not?
Simonetta Montemagni, Martijn Wieling
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13
Top-down and bottom-up advances in corpus-based dialectometry
Christoph Wolk, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
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14
Imitating closely related varieties
Lea Schäfer, Stephanie Leser, Michael Cysouw
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15
Spontaneous dubbing as a tool for eliciting linguistic data
Víctor Lara Bermejo
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16
Dialect levelling and changes in semiotic space
Ivana Škevin
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17
Code-switching in the Anglophone community in Japan
Keiko Hirano
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18
Tongue trajectories in North American English /æ/ tensing
Christopher Carignan, Jeff Mielke, Robin Dodsworth
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19
s-retraction in Italian-Tyrolean bilingual speakers
Lorenzo Spreafico
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20
Developing the Linguistic Atlas of Japan Database and advancing analysis of geographical distributions of dialects
Yasuo Kumagai
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21
Tracing real and apparent time language changes by comparing linguistic maps
Chitsuko Fukushima
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22
Timespan comparison of dialectal distributions
Takuichiro Onishi
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23
Tonal variation in Kagoshima Japanese and factors of language change
Ichiro Ota, Akira Utsugi, Hitoshi Nikaido
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