Varieties of a language may differ at the same linguistic levels as languages. In the present
study we make a distinction between the prosodic level and the verbal level. Prosody we …

When we do research on language variety, very often we encounter questions such as
these:(1) How should we distinguish a 'dialect'from a 'language'?(2) How much do two …

In this dialectometric research a quantitative measure of syntactic distance is developed and
applied to Dutch dialects. It will be shown that a quantitative perspective on syntactic …

We measure varietal differences in general, and differences with respect to standard
languages in particular (dialectality, in Herrgen/Schmidt's sense) in order to systematize …

In this dialectometric research a quantitative measure of syntactic distance is developed and
applied to Dutch dialects. It will be shown that a quantitative perspective on syntactic …

This research applies dialectometric methods to purely syntactic dialect data. It will be
shown that there is geographic cohesion in syntactic variation when viewed in the …

For almost forty years quantitative methods have been applied to the analysis of dialect
variation: these methods focused mostly on identifying the most important dialectal groups …

Abstract'Dialectometry', literally'measurement of dialect', provides several methods for
measuring dialect distances, each resulting in different outcomes. To sift among these, we …

The range of dialectometric methods suggests the need for validation work. We propose a
gold standard, based on the consensual classification of a well-studied area. Fidelity to the …

Aggregate-level studies of linguistic variation typically adopt an onomasiological perspective
on linguistic variation. Recently, however, a number of corpus-based techniques have been …