Phonetic Variation in the Traditional English Dialects: A Computational Analysis
- Author / Editor
- Shackleton, Robert G., Jr.
Phonetic Variation in the Traditional English Dialects: A Computational Analysis
- Published
- JEngL 35 (2007): 30-102.
- Description
- Employing the "standard" ME dialect of the Home Counties of southeastern England as a baseline, Shackleton applies a number of quantitative variational measures (clustering, distance regressions, variant-area regressions, barrier analysis, and principal-components analysis) to 57 ME-derived long vowels, short vowels, and diphthongs. Shackleton comments on the success of each approach and concludes that the techniques complement each other as means of delineating modern dialect localities.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.