Weekly Workshop
From Dialectology to Dialectometry 2025
- Date
- Tuesday 30 September 2025
- Time
- Explanation
- The first workshop is on 30 Sept. This is a series of weekly workshops: 30 Sept, Oct 7, Oct 14, Oct 21, Oct 28, Nov 4, Nov 11, Nov 18, Nov 25; Dec 2, Dec 9. Times 10:00 - 12:00
- Address
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Johan Huizinga
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden - Room
- Digital Lab, Huizinga 0.09
From Dialectology to Dialectometry 2025
Interested in dialects? Want to know how to analyse dialects? Want to learn how to create linguistic maps? Then this is the workshop for you! This semester, the From Dialectology to Dialectometry Workshop Series will give a range of workshops on different aspects of dialectology and dialectometry; you will learn how to read maps, extract dialect data, creating your own linguistic maps and analysing dialects using computational methods with hands on experience.
Dialectology, the study of language variation across geographical space, may not be a subject that is as accessible to everyone as before. At the end of the 19th century and throughout the 20th century, there were numerous dialect surveys conducted around the world, and some of these surveys were published as linguistic atlases (maps) and dialect surveys (tables, lists). These data typically reflect the more old-fashioned speech spoken in rural areas, which were on the verge of extinction when the surveys were conducted due to societal changes. These data, now mostly sitting in the library in book form, are covered in dust and are waiting for more people to utilize them. This workshop series aims to introduce the kind of data present in these linguistic atlases/ dialect surveys, as well as to introduce how to extract these data and analyze them.
Throughout the semester, we will digitize a small dialect dataset together. From this process, we can learn what kind of problems one might face in digitization, as well as learning how to overcome some of them.
Here you can find a PDF Description of Workshops. Open to BA & Master students, PhDs, and Staff
Organizer: Matthew Sung
Email: h.w.m.sung@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Registration open now!
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