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Autor/inn/en | Horvath, Barbara; Sankoff, David |
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Titel | Delimiting the Sydney Speech Community. |
Quelle | In: Language in Society, 16 (1987) 2, S.179-204 |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
Schlagwörter | Classification; English; Ethnic Groups; Factor Analysis; Foreign Countries; Language Research; Language Variation; Relevance (Education); Research Methodology; Social Background; Sociolinguistics; Statistical Analysis; Vowels; Australia |
Abstract | Suggests the use of principal components analysis as an alternative solution to the problem of grouping speakers by sociological characteristics prior to quantitative analysis. An example is presented of its application to vowel variation data collected as part of a sociolinguistic survey of English in Sydney, Australia. (Author/CB) |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |