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Gschmöis – Crowdsourcing grammatical data of Swiss German

Hasse, Anja; Bachmann, Sandro; Glaser, Elvira (2021). Gschmöis – Crowdsourcing grammatical data of Swiss German. Linguistics Vanguard, 7(s1):1-17.

Abstract

In recent years, a number of applications on Swiss German have been released. They all crowdsource dialectological data, yet until recently their main focus has been on lexical and phonological features. In 2018, we launched the app gschmöis , an app designed to (1) give users an insight into dialectological research, and (2) collect Swiss German data on all linguistic levels, but with a strong emphasis on morphosyntactic phenomena. At the beginning, three rounds were published. Since then new rounds were published periodically. By including not only lexical and phonological features, we want speakers of Swiss German to become aware of differences in the grammar of various Swiss German dialects.The same linguistic phenomena are covered by multiple questions, and some of the questions are duplicated from more traditional projects, like atlas projects on Swiss German. This allows for comparison across different question types (i.e. translation tasks vs. multiple choice questions), different collection methods (fieldwork methods used in the SDS, written questionnaires used in the SADS, and crowdsourcing via the smartphone application gschmöis ), and different groups of informants (NORMs vs. speakers of Swiss German of various gender and age groups). Furthermore, the older data of previous projects can directly be compared with the crowdsourced data, so that recent dialect change can be detected.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of German Studies
06 Faculty of Arts > Zurich Center for Linguistics
08 Research Priority Programs > Language and Space
Dewey Decimal Classification:430 German & related languages
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Language and Linguistics
Social Sciences & Humanities > Linguistics and Language
Language:English
Date:January 2021
Deposited On:11 May 2021 10:22
Last Modified:25 Oct 2024 01:39
Publisher:De Gruyter
ISSN:2199-174X
Additional Information:Special issue: Using smartphones to collect data for linguistic research / edited by Adrian Leemann and Nanna Haug Hilton
OA Status:Green
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0026
Related URLs:https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LINGVAN/7/s1/html (Publisher)
https://www.spur.uzh.ch/de.html (Organisation)
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