Japanese Lexical Variation Explained by Spatial Contact Patterns

Japanese Lexical Variation Explained by Spatial Contact Patterns

In this paper, we analyse spatial variation in the Japanese dialectal lexicon by assembling a set of methodologies using theories in variationist linguistics and GIScience, and tools used in historical GIS. Based on historical dialect atlas data, we calculate a linguistic distance matrix across surv...

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Main Authors: Péter Jeszenszky, Yoshinobu Hikosaka, Satoshi Imamura, Keiji Yano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-09-01
Series:ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Subjects:
GIScience
dialect geography
digital humanities
spatial modelling
historical GIS
geostatistics
linguistic variation
language change
language contact
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/9/400

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