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Linguistic traits as heritable units? Spatial Bayesian clustering reveals Swiss German dialect regions

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  • المؤلفون: Romano, Noemi; Ranacher, Peter; Bachmann, Sandro; Joost, Stéphane
  • المصدر:
    Romano, Noemi; Ranacher, Peter; Bachmann, Sandro; Joost, Stéphane (2022). Linguistic traits as heritable units? Spatial Bayesian clustering reveals Swiss German dialect regions. Journal of Linguistic Geography, 10(1):11-22.
  • نوع التسجيلة:
    Electronic Resource
  • الدخول الالكتروني :
    https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/218645/
    https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/218645
    10.1017/jlg.2021.12
  • معلومة اضافية
    • Publisher Information:
      Cambridge University Press 2022-05-02
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      In the early 2000s, the SADS, an extensive linguistic atlas project, surveyed more than three thousand individuals across German-speaking Switzerland on over two hundred linguistic variants, capturing the morphosyntactic variation in Swiss German. In this paper, we applied TESS, a Bayesian clustering method from evolutionary biology to the SADS to infer population structure, building on parallels between biology and linguistics that have recently been illustrated theoretically and explored experimentally. We tested three clustering models with different spatial assumptions: a nonspatial model, a spatial trend model with a spatial gradient, and a spatial full-trend model with both a spatial gradient and spatial-autocorrelation. Results reveal five distinct morphosyntactic populations, four of which correspond to traditional Swiss German dialect regions and one of which corresponds to a base population. Moreover, the spatial trend model outperforms the nonspatial model, suggesting a gradual transition of morphosyntax and supporting the idea of a Swiss German dialect continuum.
    • الموضوع:
      Institute of German Studies; Institute of Geography; Zurich Center for Linguistics; Language and Space; 910 Geography & travel; Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Environmental Engineering; Journal Article; NonPeerReviewed; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    • Availability:
      Open access content. Open access content
      info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
      Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
      http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
      info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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      application/pdf
      info:doi/10.5167/uzh-218645
      English
      English
    • Other Numbers:
      CHUZH oai:www.zora.uzh.ch:218645
      https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/218645/1/ZORA_div_class_title_linguistic_traits_as_heritable_units_spatial_bayesian_clustering_reveals_swiss_german_dialect_regions_div.pdf
      info:doi/10.5167/uzh-218645
      info:doi/10.1017/jlg.2021.12
      urn:issn:2049-7547
      1443045364
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      HAUPTBIBLIOTHEK UNIV OF ZURICH
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      edsoai.on1443045364
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