Language Contact and Population Contact as Sources of Dialect Similarity
July 24, 2025
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