Abstract The social categories that characterize a speaker frequently correlate with the use of specific linguistic variables. Research suggests such correlations are sometimes recognized as socially-indexed meanings. This study examines Japanese individuals’ attitudes toward variables have been shown to category gender in production. In particular, we contrast patterns gendered variation (i) p...

Terminological variation is an integral part of the linguistic ability to realise a concept in many ways, but it is typically considered an obstacle to automatic term recognition (ATR) and term management. We present a method that integrates term variation in a hybrid ATR approach, in which term candidates are recognised by a set of linguistic filters and termhood assignment is based on joint f...

The paper illustrates the results of a correlation study focusing on linguistic variation in an Italian region, Tuscany. By exploiting a multi-level representation scheme of dialectal data, the study analyses attested patterns of phonetic and morpho-lexical variation with the aim of testing the degree of correlation between a) phonetic and morpho-lexical variation, and b) linguistic variation a...