Zulu, NBarnard, E2007-07-042007-07-042006-11Zulu, N and Barnard, E. 2006. Dialect distances based on orthographic and phonetic transcriptions. 17th Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa, Parys, South Africa, 29 Nov - 1 Dec 2006, pp 5978-0-620-37384-5http://hdl.handle.net/10204/973This paper describes ongoing work in which the main objective is to quantitatively determine the linguistic distances between languages and dialects. The Levenshtein distance measure is applied to orthographic and phonetic transcriptions of words from 15 Norwegian dialects. Clustering of the distances between the different dialects shows the relationships between the dialects in terms of regional groupings and closeness. Although orthographic transcriptions generate distinctive north and south groupings, the more detailed phonetic transcriptions group the dialects more decisively into their regional groups. When the phonetic transcriptions are employed, the dendrogram of distances between regions is very similar to that computed from perceptual assessment of dialect distancesenDialectsLinguistic distanceLevenshtein distanceConference PresentationZulu, N., & Barnard, E. (2006). Dialect distances based on orthographic and phonetic transcriptions. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/973Zulu, N, and E Barnard. "Dialect distances based on orthographic and phonetic transcriptions." (2006): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/973Zulu N, Barnard E, Dialect distances based on orthographic and phonetic transcriptions; 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/973 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Zulu, N AU - Barnard, E AB - This paper describes ongoing work in which the main objective is to quantitatively determine the linguistic distances between languages and dialects. The Levenshtein distance measure is applied to orthographic and phonetic transcriptions of words from 15 Norwegian dialects. Clustering of the distances between the different dialects shows the relationships between the dialects in terms of regional groupings and closeness. Although orthographic transcriptions generate distinctive north and south groupings, the more detailed phonetic transcriptions group the dialects more decisively into their regional groups. When the phonetic transcriptions are employed, the dendrogram of distances between regions is very similar to that computed from perceptual assessment of dialect distances DA - 2006-11 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Dialects KW - Linguistic distance KW - Levenshtein distance LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2006 SM - 978-0-620-37384-5 T1 - Dialect distances based on orthographic and phonetic transcriptions TI - Dialect distances based on orthographic and phonetic transcriptions UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/973 ER -