2019
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqz037
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Dialect borders—political regions are better predictors than economy or religion

Abstract: The impact of geography on language and dialect variation has been subject to a vast number of studies in linguistics, as well as the broader humanities. Most quantitative research concerning dialectology has focused on the relationship between spatial distance and change of dialects. Hypotheses regarding the impact of other geographic, cultural, and social factors have been put forth for many years but have rarely been examined with quantitative methods. In this article, we compare dialect variation in Swiss … Show more

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“…Using Tobler's hiking function [92] (Equation 2), which defines average walking speed as the function of the terrain's slope, we calculated the "hiking times" along the least cost paths for all locality pairs, similarly to [25,93]. With its peak walking speed for slight downward slopes, the function is asymmetrical, marked with a shift of 0.05 in the exponent (the shape of the function is shown in Figure 5):…”
Section: Least Cost Paths and Hiking Timesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Using Tobler's hiking function [92] (Equation 2), which defines average walking speed as the function of the terrain's slope, we calculated the "hiking times" along the least cost paths for all locality pairs, similarly to [25,93]. With its peak walking speed for slight downward slopes, the function is asymmetrical, marked with a shift of 0.05 in the exponent (the shape of the function is shown in Figure 5):…”
Section: Least Cost Paths and Hiking Timesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Phylogenetics has lately shown an elevated interest towards historical change in linguistic patterns, regarding, for example, language evolution [22], contact-induced change [23] and correlations with language-external traits [24]. However, historical quantitative analysis was only rarely focused on similar effects on intra-language, dialectal data [14,25].…”
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