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This volume of papers from the 13th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, held at the University of Leeds in 2008, collects together current research and recent methodological developments in the study of dialects by new and established scholars. It is organised into themed sections reporting on historical dialectology, dialect literature, the production of dialect maps and atlases, and the collection and organisation of material for dialect dictionaries and corpora. Perceptual dialectology and dialect intelligibility are also featured, and there are linguistic analyses of dialectal data from many language varieties.

Proceedings of Methods XIII: Papers from the Thirteenth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, 2008

Contents: David Britain: Foreword - R. Anthony Lodge: Reallocation and codification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Paris - Jean Feuillet : Attraction du germanique sur le roman, abandon de l'enclise et naissance du français - Maria F. García-Bermejo Giner: Towards a history of English literary dialects and dialect literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: the Salamanca corpus - Michele Oliviéri: From dialectology to diachrony: evidence from lexical and morphosyntactic reconstruction in Romance dialects - Javier Ruano-García: I'll tell o how Gilbert Scott sowd is mere Berry: 'A Lancashire Tale' as a source for Lancashire speech in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century - Katie Wales: Northern English transported: the nineteenth-century goldrushes and the formation of a diaspora? - Sheila Embleton/Dorin Uritescu/Eric S. Wheeler: Identifying dialect regions: specific features vs. overall measures using the Romanian Online Dialect Atlas and multidimensional scaling - Dmitri Evmenov/Mehmet Muslimov: Atlas of Ingrian Finnish dialects: making the most of our data - Nicolas Mazziotta : Choix technologiques pour l'informatisation de l'Atlas Linguistique de la Wallonie - Janne Bondi Johannessen/Oystein Alexande Vangsnes/Signe Laake/Arne Martinus Lindstad/Tor Anders Afarli: The Nordic dialect corpus and database: methodological challenges in collecting data - Chryssoula Karantzi: The research centre for Modern Greek dialects and the Historical Dictionary of the Greek Language - Rob Penhallurick: The dialect dictionary: what is it good for? - Maria-Pilar Perea: Retrieving the sound: applying speech synthesis to dialectal data - Christoph Praxmarer: Dialect relations in the English Dialect Dictionary - Charlotte Gooskens/Vincent J. van Heuven/Renée van Bezooijen/Jos Pacilly: Is Danish an intrinsically more difficult language to understand than Swedish? - Angela Kluge: RTT retelling method: an alternative approach to interdialectal comprehension testing - Marjatta Palander: Dialect conceptions of Finns - Anja Schüppert/Charlotte Gooskens: The influence of extra-linguistic factors on mutual intelligibility: some preliminary results from Danish and Swedish pre-schoolers - Gotzon Aurrekoetxea: The correlation between morphological, syntactic and phonological variation in the Basque language - Georgie Columbus: 'Nice day, eh?': Canadian and New Zealand eh compared - Martina Häcker: Using the web as a corpus: an analysis of the distribution and use of the BE sat construction - Timo Lauttamus/John Nerbonne/Wybo Wiersma: Filled pauses as evidence of L2 proficiency: Finnish Australians speaking English - Sabine Mayer-Saar: Past participles as adjectives in Saarland German dialects - Panayiotis A. Pappas: Object clitic placement in the history of Cypriot Greek - Helka Riionheimo: The preservation of morphophonological complexity in first language attrition: the case of Ingrian Finnish dialect in Estonia - Monika Edith Schulz: Past habituality in traditional British English dialects - Anna-Liisa Vasko: Past Tense Be: old and new variants - J.D.A.Widdowson: Goodbye dolly?: lexical erosion in the dialect of Sheffield - Akemi Yamashita/Yasushi Hanzawa: Language variation and diffusion in Japan: research through the use of glottograms - Yoshiyuki Asahi: On the relationship of two Japanese regional koines: evidence from pitch-accent patterns in Karafuto and Hokkaido Japanese - Barry Heselwood/Leendert Plug/Alison Tickle: Assessing rhoticity using auditory, acoustic and psycho- acoustic methods - Keiko