Phonetic Variation in the Traditional English Dialects: A Computational Analysis

Author / Editor
Shackleton, Robert G., Jr.

Title
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.