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Mapping phonetic variation in the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Hermann Moisl

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Abstract

The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (NECTE) is a sample of dialect speech from Tyneside in north-east England [Corrigan et al 2006, Allen et al 2007]. Jones-Sargent [1983], Moisl & Jones [2005], and Moisl, Maguire & Allen [2006] used cluster analysis to show that the speakers who constitute the earlier of the two chronological strata in the corpus fall into distinct groups defined by relative frequency of usage of phonetic segments, and Moisl & Maguire [2008] went on to identify the main phonetic determinants of that grouping by comparing cluster centroids. The present discussion develops these findings by constructing a map which comprehensively describes the pattern of phonetic variation across the NECTE speakers, and, in combination with the earlier studies just cited, is intended as a contribution to a methodology for corpus-based mathematical and statistical study of language variation. The discussion is in two main parts: the first part briefly describes NECTE, the second constructs the phonetic variation map.

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Author(s): Moisl H

Editor(s): Naumann, S., Grzybek, P., Vulanovic, R., Altmann, G.

Publication type: Book Chapter

Publication status: Published

Book Title: Synergetic Linguistics: Text and Language as Dynamic Systems

Year: 2012

Pages: 135-147

Number of Volumes: 1

Publisher: Praesens Verlag

Place Published: Wien

Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item

ISBN: 9783706907002

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