A Quantitative Method of Dialect Subgrouping: The Case of Dialects in Jiangsu and Shanghai  

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Lu, Zhiji

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 9 no. 2 (1987), page 217-229.
Fulltext: 09_02_Zhiji.pdf (497.46KB)

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Until now most of the studies on Chinese dialect subgrouping have been carried out by listing and comparing a handful of the linguistic features within the framework of traditional historical linguistics. Following the methodology for quantifying the degrees of closeness among Chinese dialects proposed in Cheng (1982), this paper presents a quantitative method of dialect subgrouping which uses both correlational analysis and cluster analysis. Using this approach the dialects of 74 locations in Jiangsu Province and the Shanghai Area in China will be subgrouped and discussed.

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