Publication: Inferring the origin of linguistic features from an atlas: a case study of Swiss-German dialects
Inferring the origin of linguistic features from an atlas: a case study of Swiss-German dialects
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Takahashi, T., Glaser, E., & Ranacher, P. (2024, September 9). Inferring the origin of linguistic features from an atlas: a case study of Swiss-German dialects. The 16th Conference on Spatial Information Theory, Québec City. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.18
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A linguistic atlas is a set of maps which visualize the geographical variation of linguistic features in a single language. We present a novel model for Bayesian statistics which infers when and where the variants of a linguistic feature were invented based on the geographical distribution shown in a linguistic atlas. Based on a spatial network representing the rate of diffusion between locations, our model evaluates the probability (likelihood) that the observed geographical pattern is realized by considering the genealogical relatio
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Takahashi, T., Glaser, E., & Ranacher, P. (2024, September 9). Inferring the origin of linguistic features from an atlas: a case study of Swiss-German dialects. The 16th Conference on Spatial Information Theory, Québec City. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.18