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Lects in Helsinki Finnish-a probabilistic component modeling approach
Tekijät: Kuparinen, Olli; Peltonen, Jaakko; Mustanoja, Liisa; Leino, Unni; Santaharju, Jenni
Kustantaja: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Kustannuspaikka: CAMBRIDGE
Julkaisuvuosi: 2021
Journal: Language Variation and Change
Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimi: LANGUAGE VARIATION AND CHANGE
Lehden akronyymi: LANG VAR CHANGE
Artikkelin numero: PII S0954394521000041
Vuosikerta: 33
Numero: 1
Aloitussivu: 1
Lopetussivu: 26
Sivujen määrä: 26
ISSN: 0954-3945
eISSN: 1469-8021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394521000041
Tiivistelmä
This article examines Finnish lects spoken in Helsinki from the 1970s to the 2010s with a probabilistic model called Latent Dirichlet Allocation. The model searches for underlying components based on the linguistic features used in the interviews. Several coherent lects were discovered as components in the data, which counters the results of previous studies that report only weak covariation between features that are assumed to be present in the same lect. The speakers, however, are not categorical in their linguistic behavior and tend to use more than one lect in their speech. This implies that the lects should not be considered in parallel with seemingly uniform linguistic systems such as languages, but as partial systems that constitute a network.
This article examines Finnish lects spoken in Helsinki from the 1970s to the 2010s with a probabilistic model called Latent Dirichlet Allocation. The model searches for underlying components based on the linguistic features used in the interviews. Several coherent lects were discovered as components in the data, which counters the results of previous studies that report only weak covariation between features that are assumed to be present in the same lect. The speakers, however, are not categorical in their linguistic behavior and tend to use more than one lect in their speech. This implies that the lects should not be considered in parallel with seemingly uniform linguistic systems such as languages, but as partial systems that constitute a network.
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