Language Contact and Population Contact as Sources of Dialect Similarity

Dunn, J. and Wong, S. (2025). “Language Contact and Population Contact as Sources of Dialect Similarity.” Languages, 10(8), 188. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10080188 Abstract. This paper creates a global similarity network between city-level dialects of English in order to determine whether external factors like the amount of population contact or language contact influence dialect similarity. While previous computational … More Language Contact and Population Contact as Sources of Dialect Similarity