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- LINGUISTIC ATLAS, also dialect atlas. A book of maps which show the distribution of language features over a chosen area. The maps show, with conventional signs such as dots, circles, and triangles, the locations of features as used by native speakers, such as sounds, words, or syntactic features.
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The amount of linguistic data contained in the Atlas is unparalleled in American sociolinguistics. With data that covers vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar, the LAP offers us a chance to look at how language varies from place to place, and how language changes over time.
The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of 55 authors.
The Linguistic Atlas Project (LAP) was founded in 1929 at the behest of the American Dialect Society and remains the most thorough and expansive study of American English undertaken to date. The LAP consists of several sub-projects, divided by geographical region.
Dec 4, 2017 · This chapter focuses mostly on the American linguistic atlas effort, but the principles explained apply to many atlases. The idea for linguistic atlases was born in the nineteenth century among the Neogrammarians, at the very beginning of modern linguistics as a field of study.
Jan 1, 2010 · From a global perspective, to date the typical language atlas still focuses on just one variety as spoken by just one social type of informants (or social group). Hence, they
- Alfred Lameli
What and why? The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) provides the reader with 160 maps showing the geographical distribution of structural linguistic features. When it was first published in book form in 2005, it was a quite novel type of atlas.
A book of maps which show the distribution of language features over a chosen area. The maps show, with conventional signs such as dots, circles, and triangles, the locations of features as used by native speakers, such as sounds, words, or syntactic features.
