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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
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Sep2007
Subjects:
Dialects
Multivariate analysis
Encyclopedias & dictionaries
Lexicology
Principal components analysis
Finland
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