LINGUIST List 15.125

Fri Jan 16 2004

Qs: Dialect Distance; Ling Categorization Reference

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  1. Vica Papp, Dialect Distance / Dialectometrics
  2. GerardPer, Tag,Class,Entity,Element Categorization

Message 1: Dialect Distance / Dialectometrics

 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 06:40:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Vica Papp <vicagmx.co.uk>
Subject: Dialect Distance / Dialectometrics

Dear Colleagues,

I have been trying to find literature on 

1) measuring the distance between dialects or accents of a language,

2) how these measurements relate to the actual perception of
non-linguists, and

3) if anyone has been experimenting with computer-generated
(synthesized) or manipulated samples in measuring dialect distance or
recognition

I am interested in sociophonetic / dialectometric aspects of
constructing voice line-ups (voice parades), and so far my library
searches brought back pretty meager result.

I would appreciate any help, names, bibliographic references,
institutes with similar research interests, etc. I promise to post a
summary on the list.

Best,

Viktoria Papp
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Message 2: Tag,Class,Entity,Element Categorization

 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:51:18 EST
From: GerardPer <GerardPeraol.com>
Subject: Tag,Class,Entity,Element Categorization

Question:

Has the linguistic community prepared a single formal reference that
identifies root categories (i.e., document/linguistic categories),
such as appearance, styling, parsing, and navigating, and useful
subcategories that are associated with tags, attributes, classes,
entities, and elements? (Apparently the TEI-P4 guidelines, the HTML
4.0 specification, and CSS 1 & 2 do not associate tags, classes,
entities, and elements with a categorization scheme.)

Thanks in advance,
Gerard Peregrin
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