Application of Chemometrics Approaches to Dialect Data and the Tracing of Mobility of Humans in North America
Richard G. Brereton, Bert Vaux, Liye Zhu · 2008
In the present study we apply to these data novel statistical methods based on chemometric principles, with the goals of: 1) identifying the most salient American dialect clusters and their geographic distributions; and 2) comparing the differences between the distribution based on the phonological data and the distribution based on both lexical and phonological data.