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Geolinguistic variation of Hebridean Gaelic: the role of nominal morphology ...
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This thesis investigates the geographical variation of inflectional markers used in noun phrases by speakers of Scottish Gaelic. I focus on the traditional vernacular and therefore the data represent the speech of older L1 speakers from one of the language’s heartlands: the Hebridean archipelago. I interviewed 41 speakers above the age of 50 from 18 locations on 10 islands and used dialectometric methods to analyse the data. This thesis contributes to Gaelic and linguistic research by providing: (1) an updated account of morphological and geographical variation in the traditional Gaelic vernacular; (2) further evaluation of quantitative analyses of morphology and macrolevel variation; (3) a theory of the hierarchy of inflectional markedness for Gaelic; and (4) a critical geolinguistic approach to the study of Gaelic and morphology applied to quantitative and qualitative data. The fieldwork component of this research consisted of a sociolinguistic interview, an elicitation task, and a questionnaire to collect ...
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consonant mutation; dialectology; dialectometry; geolinguistics; language contact; language variation; nominal morphology; Scottish Gaelic
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URL: https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/38432 https://dx.doi.org/10.7488/era/1696
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Geolinguistic variation of Hebridean Gaelic: the role of nominal morphology
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Petite leçon de dialectométrie à partir des données du Nouvel Atlas Linguistique de la Basse-Bretagne
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In: Xarles Videgainen omenez 1 ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01381725 ; Xarles Videgainen omenez 1, XIX, pp.133-151, 2020, Lapurdum (2020)
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Lectometry and latent variables: a model for underlying determinants of (normative) choices in written and audiovisual translations : = Lectometrie und latente Variablen: ein Modell für zugrundeliegende Determinanten von (normativen) Wahlmöglichkeiten in schriftlichen und audiovisuellen Übersetzungen
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In: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik. - Stuttgart : Steiner 87 (2020) 2, 144-172
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Analysis of a Linguistic Area using a Phonetic Ontology ... : Sprachraumanalyse mit Hilfe einer phonetischen Ontologie ...
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Dialect variation in Scottish Gaelic nominal morphology: A quantitative study
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 5, No 1 (2020); 130 ; 2397-1835 (2020)
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From Regional Dialects to the Standard: Measuring Linguistic Distance in Galician Varieties
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In: Languages ; Volume 5 ; Issue 1 (2020)
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Dialectology and Linguistic Geography
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In: The Oxford Handbook of African Languages ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01915087 ; R. Vossen and G. Dimmendaal. The Oxford Handbook of African Languages, Oxford University Press, pp.104-124, 2020 (2020)
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Common Yue: A Comparative Study of Yue Dialect Historical Phonology
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Tonal Proximity Relationship in the Spanish of the Canary Islands in the Light of Dialectometry
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In: Languages ; Volume 4 ; Issue 2 (2019)
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Global Syntactic Variation in Seven Languages: Towards a Computational Dialectology
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Finding variants for construction-based dialectometry: A corpus-based approach to regional CxGs
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Dunn J. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2019
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The geolect of Pasvalys: a dialectometric approach to dialectal features
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In: Taikomoji kalbotyra, Iss 12 (2019) (2019)
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