Today, we looked at corpus-based approaches in dialectometry. I gave my students a variety of texts and asked them to come up with ways to compare dialects, followed by going through existing ways in doing corpus dialectometry, including works from @JWGrieve and my own.

Starting my talk on dialectometry and historical linguistics soon!

Just gave a presentation online at the 29th International Conference on Yue Dialects. I talked about using computational methods to blend dialectometry and sociolinguistics in order to study Yue dialect changes in real- and apparent-time (3 generations).

We have finally started the second half of the dialectology workshop series - Computational dialectology/ dialectometry! We looked at why we want to use computational approaches to start with, then we explored different data types and then we moved on to distance calculations.

In today's dialectometry workshop, we looked at how to classify dialects using cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling. After introducing these methods, I did a demo using a dialectometric app I wrote, on @j_prokic's Bulgarian data.

Our poster on dialectometry is up in our AI lab!

📢 Call for Reading: "Exploring Tonal Variation Using Dialect Tonometry" 🔗Full Text: https://t.co/OCgcX7PsUw 📚Special Issue: https://t.co/ilKdgsQRUP #tonalvariation #dialecttonometry #dialectometry #computationalmethods #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing

*Dialectology/ Dialectometry workshop series* The upcoming workshop series (for students in the Netherlands) is now open for registration! It starts on the 30th Sept, and there is a workshop every Tuesday until December. More details and register here: https://t.co/G1iHBt11ra

Gave a wee talk (few-minute thesis style) on dialectology and dialectometry in front of my fellow PhD colleagues yesterday 😁

*Workshop series next semester* This coming September, I will restart the dialectology workshop series in Leiden, which covers a range of topics and methods in dialectology and dialectometry. Students (and PhDs, Postdocs) from the Netherlands are all welcomed. Stay tuned!

I'm very pleased to see a large audience attended my talk today on Yue dialectometry! Got many good questions and feedback, which are very useful for the preparation of my defense 😁

Today I gave a guest lecture on computatiobal approaches to language variation. I gave an overview on dialectometry, computational socioling and histling, as well as quantitative typology to 1st year students. I even used the blackboard to explain some concepts 😄

The dialectology/ dialectometry workshop will start next week! Last time to sign up here (for those living in the Netherlands): https://t.co/G1iHBt0tBC Keywords: digital mapping, GIS, machine learning, digitisation, data visualisation, data interpretation

We've spent two days in Salzburg learning dialectometry with Hans Goebl. What a privilege! @CORPAT_proyecto

Dialectometry https://t.co/butuW4b7iX

In order to prepare for my PhD defence and for my upcoming workshop series ( https://t.co/G1iHBt0tBC, please spread the words), I have written an app which incorporates the scripts I used for my analyses and some additional functions. It's very convenient, ngl! #LeidenDialectology

My supervisor (@j_prokic) and I have been using multiple sequence alignment in dialectometry to investigate phonetic variation. Today, I read a paper by Atwood (1955), and it was a pleasant surprise to see that a very similar technique was already used.

Dialectometry: Every individual's speech is variable — and when we look beyond the individual, we see variation across space, time, style, and social structure — among other dimensions. And these variations are generally gradient rather than abrupt,… https://t.co/nanWBWhgVl

WORKSHOP SERIES ON DIALECTOLOGY/DIALECTOMETRY A very first look at my upcoming workshop series on traditional and computational dialectology: https://t.co/yawxQysYLn These are in-person workshops; students from the Netherlands from all levels (incl. PhDs) are welcomed!