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

This chapter provides an overview of how ancient and medieval texts, for which we do not
possess the original, can be studied. It describes a method by which a text can be …

The properties of complex systems engage nicely with the framework for “new varieties” of
English suggested by Edgar Schneider, which highlights perceptual qualities and describes …

This paper describes the independent construction and implementation of two cellular
automata that model dialect feature diffusion as the adaptive aspect of the complex system …

In contrast to Hans Kurath and Raven McDavid's traditional analysis of vowel variation
presented in their 1961 Pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States, which was a largely …

GIS for language study is a relatively new phenomenon within digitally oriented linguistics
that took shape during the so-called “spatial turn” within the humanities, beginning in the …

In this study we ask the question whether simplifying the data in dialectometrical studies by
removinginfrequent forms is advantageous to uncovering the geographical structure in …

The meaning distributions of certain linguistic forms generally follow a Zipfian distribution.
However, since the meanings can be observed and classified on different levels of …

This paper describes the use of cellular automata to model dialect feature diffusion as the
adaptive aspect of the complex system of speech. We show how a feature, once established …

The conference Methods in Dialectology XV was held in Groningen on 11–15 August 2014.
In October 2014 we issued a call for a contribution to a volume of proceedings, which led to …