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 11/ Inclusion of critical sociolinguistic variation such as ethnicity, gender and level of education became commonplace in atlas projects of the early 20th century, with notable works including the Linguistic Atlas of New England (LANE). This was one of the first attempts to map speech in the US ๐บ๐ธ. Once again, the results, along with all the annotated notes, have been digitalised here: https://linguisticatlasproject.org/LANE 6 comments
13/ Most new research/effort is focused on digitalising existing databases to preserve them and enhance accessibility, but some cutting-edge work is also being done to improve on this work using more modern GIS, geospatial analysis, and cartographic methodology. Take the *Atlas linguistique de la France* The data points on the map are each labelled with Investigation points, which can then be remapped onto modern maps using coordinates to produce more accurate final projects. 15/ For our ๐บ๐ธ American and ๐จ๐ฆ Canadian friends - you will enjoy the amazingly detailed North American English Dialects map 16/ And finally, because big is brilliant, letโs end this thread on the World Atlas of Language Structures. An incredible study of over 160 maps showing the geographic distribution of structural linguistic features such as word order, number of genders and more. You can see the complete list of linguistic items here and find the maps in the links. https://wals.info/chapter Weโll leave you with a screenshot of one of the maps: 17/ So there you have it, linguistic atlases! Pretty fascinating, donโt you think? Be honestโฆ how long did you spend listening to that fable and browsing the maps? Thank you very much for reading (and sharing)! We have more threads on #geoweirdness in specific regions and on other topics available over on our blog: |
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12/ The next major development in linguistic atlases was the introduction of computers to streamline and improve the data collection and cartographic processes.
Early successful examples of this include the Computer Developed Linguistic Atlas of England (CLAE, Viereck and Ramisch).
Below you can see some of the code used to map the linguistic item โanvilโ and its variants, and what this looks like on a modernised, more detailed map.
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