In our earlier work, an approach to defining dialect areas using multidimensional scaling (MDS) of the total collection of available raw data has produced results that showed some but not all of the dialect distinctions that were anticipated. To investigate this situation, we have extended our approach in two ways, one methodological and one technical.
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