Explorer la variation en breton grâce à la dialectométrie : la Basse-Bretagne considérée par la distance linguistique

Solliec, Tanguy

doi:10.4000/lbl.307

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“…This could have contributed to providing a different perspective to the results I obtained. Indeed, I have previously observed that the sounds belonging to that category vary in Breton considerably (Solliec 2017). They constitute the major part of the modifications I have gathered (57.35 % of all occurrences).…”

Section: A Paradox To Resolve or An Approach To Redefine?mentioning

confidence: 77%

“…Their distribution can be characterized quantitatively and geographically. I have previously observed (Solliec 2017) that the statistical distribution followed the Pareto principle. It means that the majority of the modifications gathered for this study are distributed between a few alternations only.…”

Section: Elements Of Variation By Segmentsmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…For this study, I have selected the area in central Brittany that I have previously investigated in (Solliec 2017; see also Brun-Trigaud et al 2016). The area is situated between different dialect regions but is also not far from Carhaix, 2 a nexus of linguistic innovations for centuries.…”

Section: The Area Selected In Central Brittanymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this study, I have focused more specifically on the measurement of phonetic distance between two forms of the same word. Since I intended to identify the components of the linguistic distance, I have used a version of the Levenshtein algorithm customized by Guylaine Brun-Trigaud (2014), which has already been applied to the Breton language (Brun-Trigaud et al 2016;Solliec 2017). The version of the Levenshtein algorithm used here, not only operates alignments of phonetic pronunciations and counts the differences between the chains, it also returns the nature of the transformations provided by the algorithm.…”

Section: A Specific Use Of the Levenshtein Algorithmmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Unity in Diversity?: A Fine-Grained Approach to Linguistic Geography of Breton by Means of Dialectometry

Solliec¹

2019

Studia Celto-Slavica

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Local variation in Breton is a well known feature but aggregate analyses on this topic are still rare. A dialectometric approach, i.e. a computational method for comparing data from the different locations of a linguistic atlas, applied to the Nouvel Atlas Linguistique de la Basse-Bretagne (Le Dû 2001) but restrained to a small area at the center of the Lower-Brittany has identified a few phenomena involved in linguistic variation and has quantified their importance. We discuss these results in the light of the frequency of these facts for each site. This approach is an opportunity to associate basic corpus approach to linguistic geography for a better understanding of linguistic variation.

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Section: A Paradox To Resolve or An Approach To Redefine?mentioning

confidence: 77%

Section: Elements Of Variation By Segmentsmentioning

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Section: The Area Selected In Central Brittanymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Specific Use Of the Levenshtein Algorithmmentioning

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Unity in Diversity?: A Fine-Grained Approach to Linguistic Geography of Breton by Means of Dialectometry

Solliec¹

2019

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“…For an example of how the approach was applied cf. Brun-Trigaud, Solliec & Le Dû 2016;Solliec 2017Solliec , 2019. The rate of similarity between the two strings is obtained by applying the following formula:…”

Section: Dialectometry: a Quantitative Methods For The Analysis Of Dialect Datamentioning

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Dialectometry and Genetic Demography of Cystic Fibrosis. When Results Converge: The Case of Western Brittany

Pellen¹,

Solliec²

2021

Studia Celto-Slavica

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This article was born out of two separate approaches carried out independently of one another. The first dealt with genetic demography and the second with variational linguistics, aiming to study the population and language of Brittany from a certain perspective. In their recent study of the genetic history of France, Saint Pierre et al. show that Brittany “is substantially closer to the population from north-west Europe than to the north of France, in spite of both being equally geographically close” (2020: 863). They propose that the Bretons’ earliest ancestors could be the descendants of early Neolithic pastoralist nomads from the Steppes (SP) who would have arrived in Brittany (i.e. the ‘NW cluster’) via north-western Europe. The second hypothesis would support the idea of a more recent migration from northern Europe with high SP proportion, i.e., Celtic and/or Anglo-Saxon. Our initial hypothesis is that the convergences in linguistics and genetics may be explained by a unique historical event, namely, the Brittonic settlement of the Armorican peninsula from the 4th through at least the 7th centuries and perhaps as late as the 8th century. The application of linguistic distance measurements in the study of vernacular Breton varieties by means of a dialectometric analysis made it possible to observe clear correspondences between levels of linguistic similarity and the distribution of the genetic pools linked to cystic fibrosis. The convergence of our collective findings is most clearly manifested in the radical opposition of the north-western and the south-eastern zones of Breton-speaking Brittany in terms of the linguistic and genetic data. In our view, the scientific approach inherent to genetic and dialectometric research and the concordance of these data appear to not only reinforce many of the hypotheses advanced previously but to open new avenues for future research.

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Explorer la variation en breton grâce à la dialectométrie : la Basse-Bretagne considérée par la distance linguistique

Cited by 2 publications

References 4 publications

Unity in Diversity?: A Fine-Grained Approach to Linguistic Geography of Breton by Means of Dialectometry

Unity in Diversity?: A Fine-Grained Approach to Linguistic Geography of Breton by Means of Dialectometry

Dialectometry and Genetic Demography of Cystic Fibrosis. When Results Converge: The Case of Western Brittany

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