Linguistic Variation

1/12/02


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Table of Contents

Linguistic Variation

Variation and Change

Genealogy of German

Earliest Germanic

Before Documents

Gothic Bible (4th Cent.)

How Do We Know Prehistory?

Grimm’s Law

Sound Change

Historical Reconstruction

(Sound) Change ? Tree

Computational Contributions

Chance of Historical Relation

Why do Languages Change?

Change “from below”

Other Factors in Change

Complications

Language Contact

Radical Contact

Pidgin Characteristics

Creole Origins

Trees vs. Waves

Second Sound Shift

Geography of Second Shift

Dutch Dialects

Dutch Dialect Areas

How different are dialects from each other?

Dialect Differences

How different are dialects from each other?

Dialect Differences

Other major differences

Computational Contributions

Alignment Operations

Results of Levenshtein

Dialecticality

Dialects vs. Standard Dutch

Differences w.r.t. other Dialects

Dialect Continuum?

Language Variation & Change

Author: john nerbonne

Email: nerbonne@let.rug.nl

Home Page: http://www.let.rug.nl/~nerbonne/teach/intro-ling.html