Multivariate Analysis of Finnish Dialect Data—An Overview of Lexical Variation.

During the process of writing a comprehensive dictionary of Finnish dialects, a large set of maps describing the regional distribution of the dialect words have been compiled in electronic form. In this article, we set out to analyse this corpus of data in order to gain new insight on the variation...

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Published in:Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 271 - 291
Main Authors: Hyvönen, Saara, Leino, Antti, Salmenkivi, Marko
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Published: Oxford University Press / USA Sep2007
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          Department of Computer Science, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 68, FI-00014, Finland
          Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
          Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
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        Dialects
        Multivariate analysis
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        Principal components analysis
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