PA {iL04}R Documentation

Dialect differences in the state of Pennsylvania

Description

This data set gives the dialect differences between communities in the state of Pennsylvania. These differences where determined by running the leven program on phonetic data from the LAMSAS database.

Usage

data(PA)

Format

An object of class dist comparing 67 communities, with community names stored in the attribute Labels.

References

Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS): http://us.english.uga.edu/lamsas/

RuG/L04 - software for dialectometrics and cartography: http://www.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/L04/

See Also

PA.coo, PA.map

Examples

data(PA)
plot(hclust(PA, "ward"))

[Package iL04 version 1.15 Index]