AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLINGUISTICS The new eighth edition of An Introduction to
Sociolinguistics brings this valuable, bestselling textbook up to date with the latest in …

Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume
examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life …

The transmission of linguistic change within a speech community is characterized by
incrementation within a faithfully reproduced pattern characteristic of the family tree model …

Dialectometry applies computational and statistical analyses within dialectology, making
work more easily replicable and understandable. This survey article first reviews the field …

As mentioned in Chapter 5 we may use Levenshtein distance to find the distance between
two pronunciations of the same word. The distance between two varieties is equal to the …

Abstract Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature.
Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) …

This paper documents the many taxometric and cartographic achievements of the Salzburg
school of dialectometry. The paper discusses the following topics:(1) problems of …

This book considers how languages have traditionally been divided into families, and asks
how they should classified in the future. It describes and applies computer programs from …

This paper presents the outcomes of the “Soundscape Attributes Translation Project”(SATP),
an international initiative addressing the critical research gap in soundscape descriptors …

Recent game-theoretic simulation and analytical models have demonstrated that
cooperative strategies mediated by indicators of cooperative potential, or “tags,” can invade …