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Dialectology is the study of dialects, and dialectometry is themeasurement of dialect differences, i.e. linguistic differences whosedistribution is determined primarily by geography. The earliest worksin dialectology showed that language variation is complex bothgeographically and linguistically and cannot be reduced to simplecharacterizations. There has thus always been a perceived need fortechniques which can deal with large amounts of data in a controlledmeans, i.e. computational techniques. This special issue ofComputers and the Humanities presents a range of recent work onthis topic.
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Nerbonne, J., Kretzschmar, W. Introducing Computational Techniques in Dialectometry. Computers and the Humanities 37, 245–255 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025064105053
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