Dialectology Literature

1. J.K. Chambers & Peter Trudgill
   Dialectology. Cambridge Unviersity Press, Cambridge. 1998. Ch.9 pp.127-148; and Ch.11 pp.166-186.
2. Wilbert Heeringa.
   Measuring Dialect Pronunciation Differences using Levenshtein Distances. Ph.D. Diss., University of Groningen, 2004. Ch.5, 121-134; Ch.7, pp.165-198.
3. Wilbert Heeringa and John Nerbonne
   Dialect Areas and Dialect Continua. In: Language Variation and Change 13, 2001, pp.375-400.
4. Wilbert Heeringa, John Nerbonne and Peter Kleiweg
   Validating Dialect Comparison Methods. In: Wolgang Gaul and Gerd Ritter (eds.) Classification, Automation, and New Media. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation, University of Passau, Springer: Heidelberg. 2002, pp.445-452.
5. John Nerbonne.
   Various Variation Aggregates in the LAMSAS South. Submitted to Catherine Davis and Michael Picone (eds.) Language Variety in the South III. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2005
6. John Nerbonne, Ilse van Gemert and Wilbert Heeringa
   A Dialectometric View of Linguistic Gravity. Submitted to Language 2005. Comments welcome!
7. John Nerbonne with Wilbert Heeringa and Peter Kleiweg
   Edit Distance and Dialect Proximity. In: David Sankoff and Joseph Kruskal (eds.) Time Warps, String Edits and Macromolecules: The Theory and Practice of Sequence Comparison. 1999, Stanford: CSLI Press. pp.v-xv.
8. John Nerbonne and Peter Kleiweg
   Lexical Distance in LAMSAS In: John Nerbonne and William Kretzschmar (eds.) Computational Methods in Dialectometry Special issue of Computers and the Humanities, 37(3), 2003, 339-357.
9. John Nerbonne and Peter Kleiweg
   Toward a Dialectological Yardstick Accepted to appear in: Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 11, 2004.
10. John Nerbonne and William Kretzschmar
    Introducing Computational Methods in Dialectometry. In: John Nerbonne and William Kretzschmar (eds.) Computational Methods in Dialectometry Special issue of Computers and the Humanities, 37(3), 2003, 245-255.