What drives non-linguists' hands (or mouse) when drawing mental dialect maps?
In perceptual dialectology, mental mapping is a popular tool used for eliciting attitudes and the spatial imprint of linguistic cognition from non-linguists, through tasking them with drawing about linguistic variations on maps. Despite the popularity of this method, research on the geometrical para...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 593 - 609 |
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