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ACCESSIBILITY AND LANGUAGE CHARACTERISTICS IN CATALONIA
Author(s) -
WESSELS COEN,
BECK JAN MANSVELT
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9663.1994.tb00682.x
Subject(s) - centrality , geography , distribution (mathematics) , isolation (microbiology) , linguistics , economic geography , regional science , political science , statistics , mathematical analysis , philosophy , mathematics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
Castilianization of Catalonia is often thought to be most intensive in the most accessible and central areas. With the help of Geographical Information Systems and characteristics of the road and railway networks, centrality scores for urban municipalities and municipalities near the city of Barcelona have been calculated. The analysis of language characteristics does not show any significant relationship of accessibility on the one hand and the distribution of language characteristics on the other. Instead, Catalonia's linguistic geography is strongly linked with massive in‐migration of Castilian‐speaking minorities. This conclusion may even be valid in a retrospective sense.