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Inferring the origin of linguistic features from an atlas: a case study of Swiss-German dialects

Takahashi, Takuya; Glaser, Elvira; Ranacher, Peter (2024). Inferring the origin of linguistic features from an atlas: a case study of Swiss-German dialects. In: The 16th Conference on Spatial Information Theory, Québec City, Canada, 17 September 2024 - 20 September 2024.

Abstract

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 relationship between variants at different locations. We apply our model to a linguistic atlas of Swiss-German dialects and infer the origin of three forms of the High-German word "nein" meaning "no".

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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:07 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography
Dewey Decimal Classification:910 Geography & travel
Language:English
Event End Date:20 September 2024
Deposited On:04 Oct 2024 11:49
Last Modified:04 Oct 2024 11:49
OA Status:Green
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.18
Official URL:https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.18
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