13 research outputs found
An attempt at a family tree of Japanese dialect accentuation : As viewed from "class mergers" and "geographical distribution"
ORIGINAL PAPER徳川宗賢, 1962, 「“日本諸方言アクセントの系譜”試論 ―「類の統合」と「地理的分布」から見る―」, 『学習院大学国語国文学会誌』6, pp. 1-19.TOKUGAWA, Munemasa, 1962, “Nihongo sho-hōgen akusento-no keifu” shiron: “rui-no tōgō”-to “chiri-teki bumpu”-kara miru, Gakushūin Daigaku Kokugo Kokubungaku Kaishi 6, pp. 1-19.Translated by Wayne Lawrence (The University of Auckland)Proofed by Timothy J. Vance (Komatsu University
Modelling the Spatial Dynamics of Culture Spreading in the Presence of Cultural Strongholds
Cultural competition has throughout our history shaped and reshaped the
geography of boundaries between humans. Language and culture are intimately
connected and linguists often use distinctive keywords to quantify the dynamics
of information spreading in societies harbouring strong culture centres. One
prominent example, which is addressed here, is Kyoto's historical impact on
Japanese culture. We construct a first minimal model, based on shared
properties of linguistic maps, to address the interplay between information
flow and geography. In particular, we show that spreading of information over
Japan in the pre-modern time can be described as a Eden growth process, with
noise levels corresponding to coherent spatial patches of sizes given by a
single days walk, and with patch-to-patch communication time comparable to the
time between human generations.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure