12. Syntax hessischer Dialekte (SyHD)

Fleischer, Jürg; Lenz, Alexandra N.; Weiß, Heinz

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“…The material used in this article is taken solely from the project Syntax hessischer Dialekte (SyHD), a dialect syntax project conducted in the German state of Hesse between 2010 and 2016 (see Fleischer, Kasper & Lenz, 2012; Fleischer, Lenz & Weiß, 2015; Fleischer, Lenz & Weiß, 2017). The project was carried out in the form of four questionnaire surveys and direct on-site fieldwork.…”

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Syntactic vs. phonological areas: A quantitative perspective on Hessian dialects

Birkenes

Fleischer

2021

J. of Ling. Geography

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This paper takes a quantitative perspective on data from the project Syntax hessischer Dialekte (SyHD), covering dialects in the German state of Hesse, an area with rich dialectal variation. Many previous dialectometric analyses abstracted away from intralocal variation (e.g., by only counting the most frequent variant at a location). In contrast, we do justice to intralocal variation by taking into account local frequency relations. The study shows that the border between Low German and Central German—one of the most important isoglosses in German dialectology—is not relevant for syntactic phenomena. At the same time, a comparison with character n-grams (a global measure of string similarity) reveals that the traditionally assumed dialect areas, primarily defined according to phonological developments, are still present in the twenty-first century data. Different from previous studies, our results are obtained from a uniform data base. Therefore, the differences between syntax and phonology cannot be due to variation in sampling, elicitation method, or time of elicitation.

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Syntactic vs. phonological areas: A quantitative perspective on Hessian dialects

Birkenes

Fleischer

2021

J. of Ling. Geography

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“…The speakers were generally interviewed by a fellow villager in the local dialect to avoid adaptation to the language of the interviewer. The topics of the conversations were free; in contrast to, for instance, the interviews for the SAND or the Syntax hessischer Dialekte (SyHD, Fleischer et al, 2015 ), the aim was not to elicit specific linguistic constructions. In general, the speakers narrate about their life, profession, and the sociocultural changes they witnessed during their lifetime.…”

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Clearing the Transcription Hurdle in Dialect Corpus Building: The Corpus of Southern Dutch Dialects as Case Study

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Breitbarth²,

Farasyn³

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Front. Artif. Intell.

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This paper discusses how the transcription hurdle in dialect corpus building can be cleared. While corpus analysis has strongly gained in popularity in linguistic research, dialect corpora are still relatively scarce. This scarcity can be attributed to several factors, one of which is the challenging nature of transcribing dialects, given a lack of both orthographic norms for many dialects and speech technological tools trained on dialect data. This paper addresses the questions (i) how dialects can be transcribed efficiently and (ii) whether speech technological tools can lighten the transcription work. These questions are tackled using the Southern Dutch dialects (SDDs) as case study, for which the usefulness of automatic speech recognition (ASR), respeaking, and forced alignment is considered. Tests with these tools indicate that dialects still constitute a major speech technological challenge. In the case of the SDDs, the decision was made to use speech technology only for the word-level segmentation of the audio files, as the transcription itself could not be sped up by ASR tools. The discussion does however indicate that the usefulness of ASR and other related tools for a dialect corpus project is strongly determined by the sound quality of the dialect recordings, the availability of statistical dialect-specific models, the degree of linguistic differentiation between the dialects and the standard language, and the goals the transcripts have to serve.

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“…The SyHD project is the first project to employ LPEs in the context of local face-to-face surveys, in addition to written questionnaires (cf. Fleischer, Kasper & Lenz, 2012;Fleischer, Lenz & Weiß, 2015;Lenz, 2016Lenz, , 2017. In the SFB DiÖ study, more traditional survey methods for collecting data on syntactic variation are supplemented by computer supported LPEs (with experiment software) and with a pseudo-randomized order of the tasks.…”

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Exploring syntactic variation by means of “Language Production Experiments”: Methods from and analyses on German in Austria

Lenz

Breuer

Fingerhuth

et al. 2019

J. of Ling. Geography

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This article presents computer supported “language production experiments” (LPEs) as a method for the investigation of syntactic variation. It describes the setup for the investigation of numerous syntactic phenomena and provides a sample study of the German GET passive across Austria. It also suggests that LPEs offer possibilities for the targeted investigation of linguistic variation in various ways. They may be used to explore speakers’ individual linguistic repertoires and an according corpus setup can be used to examine e.g., interspeaker patterns of variation. LPEs also enable researchers to investigate which linguistic factors control or influence syntactic variation.

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12. Syntax hessischer Dialekte (SyHD)

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Syntactic vs. phonological areas: A quantitative perspective on Hessian dialects

Syntactic vs. phonological areas: A quantitative perspective on Hessian dialects

Clearing the Transcription Hurdle in Dialect Corpus Building: The Corpus of Southern Dutch Dialects as Case Study

Exploring syntactic variation by means of “Language Production Experiments”: Methods from and analyses on German in Austria

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