Perceptual Dialectology of the Arab World: A Principal Analysis

作者: Irene Theodoropoulou , Joseph Tyler

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关键词: PerceptionGeographyCorrelation analysisVariation (linguistics)Principal (computer security)Middle Eastern studiesPerceptual dialectologyGenealogyLanguage studyLinguisticsArabic

摘要: This study discusses perceptions of variation across dialects Arabic in the Arab world as revealed through a perceptual dialectology map task. On world, female undergraduate students at Qatar University provided information about boundaries where people speak differently and labels for those boundaries. A correlation analysis showed that participants viewed constituting five major dialect groups: Maghreb, Egypt Sudan, Levant, Gulf, Somalia. closer content terms principal (Goffman 1981) on which they draw their judgments, being either individual, regional (intermediate), or wide-scope generic. not only identifies more granularity concept principal, it also quantifies different kinds statistical relationships between them, labels,

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