LINGUIST List 15.125

Fri Jan 16 2004

Qs: Dialect Distance; Ling Categorization Reference

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  • Vica Papp, Dialect Distance / Dialectometrics
  • 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

    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