Lecture | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
Computational approaches to diachronic language micro-variation
- Date
- Friday 26 September 2025
- Time
- Serie
- Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
- Address
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Herta Mohr
Witte Singel 27A
2311 BG Leiden - Room
- 1.80
Abstract
Dialectometry is a quantitative branch of dialectology which uses computational and statistical methods to analyse dialect data. Although dialectometric methods are often used for synchronic classifications, methods like automatic sound correspondences extraction and automatic feature extraction are also useful for diachronic studies. In this talk, I will illustrate how dialectometric methods can help us uncover regional linguistic history from the dialect data documented in various linguistic atlases.