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Dialectometry, the method used in the study "Revisiting the classification of Gallo-Italic: a dialectometric approach"
by Marco Tamburelli , Lissander Brasca
and other scientific criteria used here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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2 Dec 2025
I am very happy to share that my dialectology/ dialectometry workshop series has ended on a high note! We went through some contemporary approaches around the world, incl. modern field methods, explanatory and tonal dialectometry, comparison of different linguistic levels etc.
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25 Nov 2025
Today, we looked at corpus-based approaches in dialectometry. I gave my students a variety of texts and asked them to come up with ways to compare dialects, followed by going through existing ways in doing corpus dialectometry, including works from @JWGrieve and my own.
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11 Nov 2025
In today's dialectometry workshop, we looked at how to classify dialects using cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling. After introducing these methods, I did a demo using a dialectometric app I wrote, on @j_prokic's Bulgarian data.
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27 Oct 2025
Just gave a presentation online at the 29th International Conference on Yue Dialects. I talked about using computational methods to blend dialectometry and sociolinguistics in order to study Yue dialect changes in real- and apparent-time (3 generations).
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7 Oct 2025
📢 Call for Reading:
"Exploring Tonal Variation Using Dialect Tonometry"
🔗Full Text: mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/12/378
📚Special Issue: mdpi.com/journal/languages/s…
#tonalvariation #dialecttonometry #dialectometry #computationalmethods #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing
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26 Sep 2025
Starting my talk on dialectometry and historical linguistics soon!
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23 Sep 2025
The dialectology/ dialectometry workshop will start next week! Last time to sign up here (for those living in the Netherlands): universiteitleiden.nl/en/eve…
Keywords: digital mapping, GIS, machine learning, digitisation, data visualisation, data interpretation
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16 Sep 2025
I'm very pleased to see a large audience attended my talk today on Yue dialectometry! Got many good questions and feedback, which are very useful for the preparation of my defense 😁
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8 Sep 2025
*Dialectology/ Dialectometry workshop series*
The upcoming workshop series (for students in the Netherlands) is now open for registration! It starts on the 30th Sept, and there is a workshop every Tuesday until December. More details and register here:
universiteitleiden.nl/en/eve…
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31 Aug 2025
The idea of a Kombinationskarte can go back to Haag (1898). Since then, more maps of this kind came in later studies, like Atwood (1955, Walloon) and Glauser (1974, Scottish-English). Later on, dialectometry led by Goebl also adapted these maps and named them honeycomb maps.
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23 Jul 2025
There is also amerru in eastern Kabylia (Tasahlit)
In general (not specifically here) in Kabyle dialectometry works, Tasahlit should be removed because it is a different language from Tazwawt (as Taamousht which was not included) and data are always missing (here north of Ssṭif)
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8 Jul 2025
WORKSHOP SERIES ON DIALECTOLOGY/DIALECTOMETRY
A very first look at my upcoming workshop series on traditional and computational dialectology: universiteitleiden.nl/en/eve…
These are in-person workshops; students from the Netherlands from all levels (incl. PhDs) are welcomed!
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3 Jun 2025
The electronic poster for my upcoming dialectology/ dialectometry workshop series is up on our Campus!
@LeidenDH
25 May 2025
*Workshop series next semester*
This coming September, I will restart the dialectology workshop series in Leiden, which covers a range of topics and methods in dialectology and dialectometry.
Students (and PhDs, Postdocs) from the Netherlands are all welcomed. Stay tuned!
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25 May 2025
*Workshop series next semester*
This coming September, I will restart the dialectology workshop series in Leiden, which covers a range of topics and methods in dialectology and dialectometry.
Students (and PhDs, Postdocs) from the Netherlands are all welcomed. Stay tuned!
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9 May 2025
My supervisor (@j_prokic) and I have been using multiple sequence alignment in dialectometry to investigate phonetic variation. Today, I read a paper by Atwood (1955), and it was a pleasant surprise to see that a very similar technique was already used.
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15 Apr 2025
Today I gave a guest lecture on computatiobal approaches to language variation. I gave an overview on dialectometry, computational socioling and histling, as well as quantitative typology to 1st year students. I even used the blackboard to explain some concepts 😄
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26 Mar 2025
Gave a wee talk (few-minute thesis style) on dialectology and dialectometry in front of my fellow PhD colleagues yesterday 😁
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18 Dec 2024
Our latest paper on tonal dialectometry is out! We explored: 1) whether tonal variation forms a geographical dialect continuum & 2) to what extent is tonal variation correlated with segmental correlation.
You can find our paper here: mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/12/378
@j_prokic
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