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Dialect distances based on orthographic and phonetic transcriptions

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dc.contributor.author Zulu, N
dc.contributor.author Barnard, E
dc.date.accessioned 2007-07-04T12:23:26Z
dc.date.available 2007-07-04T12:23:26Z
dc.date.issued 2006-11
dc.identifier.citation Zulu, N and Barnard, E. 2006. Dialect distances based on orthographic and phonetic transcriptions. 17th Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa, Parys, South Africa, 29 Nov - 1 Dec 2006, pp 5 en
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-620-37384-5
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10204/973
dc.description.abstract This paper describes ongoing work in which the main objective is to quantitatively determine the linguistic distances between languages and dialects. The Levenshtein distance measure is applied to orthographic and phonetic transcriptions of words from 15 Norwegian dialects. Clustering of the distances between the different dialects shows the relationships between the dialects in terms of regional groupings and closeness. Although orthographic transcriptions generate distinctive north and south groupings, the more detailed phonetic transcriptions group the dialects more decisively into their regional groups. When the phonetic transcriptions are employed, the dendrogram of distances between regions is very similar to that computed from perceptual assessment of dialect distances en
dc.language.iso en en
dc.subject Dialects en
dc.subject Linguistic distance en
dc.subject Levenshtein distance en
dc.title Dialect distances based on orthographic and phonetic transcriptions en
dc.type Conference Presentation en
dc.identifier.apacitation Zulu, N., & Barnard, E. (2006). Dialect distances based on orthographic and phonetic transcriptions. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/973 en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitation Zulu, N, and E Barnard. "Dialect distances based on orthographic and phonetic transcriptions." (2006): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/973 en_ZA
dc.identifier.vancouvercitation Zulu N, Barnard E, Dialect distances based on orthographic and phonetic transcriptions; 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/973 . en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Conference Presentation AU - Zulu, N AU - Barnard, E AB - This paper describes ongoing work in which the main objective is to quantitatively determine the linguistic distances between languages and dialects. The Levenshtein distance measure is applied to orthographic and phonetic transcriptions of words from 15 Norwegian dialects. Clustering of the distances between the different dialects shows the relationships between the dialects in terms of regional groupings and closeness. Although orthographic transcriptions generate distinctive north and south groupings, the more detailed phonetic transcriptions group the dialects more decisively into their regional groups. When the phonetic transcriptions are employed, the dendrogram of distances between regions is very similar to that computed from perceptual assessment of dialect distances DA - 2006-11 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Dialects KW - Linguistic distance KW - Levenshtein distance LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2006 SM - 978-0-620-37384-5 T1 - Dialect distances based on orthographic and phonetic transcriptions TI - Dialect distances based on orthographic and phonetic transcriptions UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/973 ER - en_ZA


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