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A statistical comparison of regional phonetic and lexical variation in American English

Author(s) -

John Grieve

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

literary and linguistic computing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1477-4615

pISSN - 0268-1145

DOI - 10.1093/llc/fqs051

Subject(s) - variation (astronomy) , similarity (geometry) , regional variation , set (abstract data type) , computer science , american english , natural language processing , linguistics , artificial intelligence , physics , astrophysics , political science , law , image (mathematics) , programming language , philosophy

This paper presents a statistical comparison of regional phonetic and lexical variation in American English. Both the phonetic and lexical datasets were first subjected to separate multivariate spatial analyses in order to identify the most common dimensions of spatial clustering in these two datasets. The dimensions of phonetic and lexical variation extracted by these two analyses were then correlated with each other, after being interpolated over a shared set of reference locations, in order to measure the similarity of regional phonetic and lexical variation in American English. This analysis shows that regional phonetic and lexical variation are remarkably similar in Modern American English.

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