The Computational Analysis of Bulgarian Dialect Pronunciation

Prokić, Jelena, et al. "The Computational Analysis of Bulgarian Dialect Pronunciation." Serdica Journal of Computing 3.3 (2009): 269-298. <http://eudml.org/doc/11362>.

@article{Prokić2009,
abstract = {The paper presents a computational analysis of Bulgarian dialect variation, concentrating on pronunciation differences. It describes the phonetic data set compiled during the project* ‘Measuring Linguistic Unity and Diversity in Europe’ that consists of the pronunciations of 157 words collected at 197 sites from all over Bulgaria. We also present the results of analyzing this data set using various quantitative methods and compare them to the traditional scholarship on Bulgarian dialects. The results have shown that various dialectometrical techniques clearly identify east-west division of the country along the ‘jat’ border, as well as the third group of varieties in the Rodopi area. The rest of the groups specified in the traditional atlases either were not confirmed or were confirmed with a low confidence.* The project is sponsored by Volkswagen Stiftung. More information can be found at http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/dialectometry},
author = {Prokić, Jelena, Nerbonne, John, Zhobov, Vladimir, Osenova, Petya, Simov, Kiril, Zastrow, Thomas, Hinrichs, Erhard},
journal = {Serdica Journal of Computing},
keywords = {Dialectology; Computational Dialectometry; Phonetic Similarity},
language = {eng},
number = {3},
pages = {269-298},
publisher = {Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences},
title = {The Computational Analysis of Bulgarian Dialect Pronunciation},
url = {http://eudml.org/doc/11362},
volume = {3},
year = {2009},
}

TY - JOUR
AU - Prokić, Jelena
AU - Nerbonne, John
AU - Zhobov, Vladimir
AU - Osenova, Petya
AU - Simov, Kiril
AU - Zastrow, Thomas
AU - Hinrichs, Erhard
TI - The Computational Analysis of Bulgarian Dialect Pronunciation
JO - Serdica Journal of Computing
PY - 2009
PB - Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
VL - 3
IS - 3
SP - 269
EP - 298
AB - The paper presents a computational analysis of Bulgarian dialect variation, concentrating on pronunciation differences. It describes the phonetic data set compiled during the project* ‘Measuring Linguistic Unity and Diversity in Europe’ that consists of the pronunciations of 157 words collected at 197 sites from all over Bulgaria. We also present the results of analyzing this data set using various quantitative methods and compare them to the traditional scholarship on Bulgarian dialects. The results have shown that various dialectometrical techniques clearly identify east-west division of the country along the ‘jat’ border, as well as the third group of varieties in the Rodopi area. The rest of the groups specified in the traditional atlases either were not confirmed or were confirmed with a low confidence.* The project is sponsored by Volkswagen Stiftung. More information can be found at http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/dialectometry
LA - eng
KW - Dialectology; Computational Dialectometry; Phonetic Similarity
UR - http://eudml.org/doc/11362
ER -