Correlating morphosyntactic dialect variation with geographic distance: Local beats global
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Point of Departure " First Law of Geography " : " Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things. " — Waldo Tobler, 1970 Fundamental Dialectological Postulate: " Geographically proximate varieties tend to be more similar than distant ones. " — Nerbonne & Kleiweg, 2007 Tested on different types of data (surveys, corpora) Several kinds of geographic distance Leading to significant and non-significant correlations Local analysis was neglected
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