Euskalkien dialektotasunaz

The writer deals with the issue of the distribution and classification of the Basque dialects from a scientific point of view by analysing the theoretical approaches of the last few years from a critical perspective. In the process, the author establishes certain important conceptual boundaries: the methodology used when determining the dialects, the function of the diachronic and synchronic approaches, the criteria and the methodology applied for determining the number of dialects, the value of the distinctness of dialects, the language border issue, the homogeneity of the dialects and the nature of the geolinguistic coherence. Two types of dialectologies are distinguished throughout the article: the traditional dialectology based on isoglosses and a diachronic perspective; and the contemporary dialectology which is discussed through synchrony and uses statistical classifying procedures. He ends by placing the future of dialectology in the use of new technologies and methodologies

Iparraldeko hizkeren sailkapena (1): lexikoa

Using the data from Bourciez collection, this article shows the relationship between the dialect varieties of the Northern part of the Basque Country and their classification. At the beginning of the work, there are texts gathered by A. Bourciez in the end of 19th century; the work continues with the creation of the date-base and the lemmatisation of the words of the texts. The process of varieties' classification starts with the accuracy of linguistic distance between dialect varieties, the search ofthe focus of dialects and their classification. In this article, the author shows a new methodology to classify Basque dialect varieties. This is the first time that the VDM computer prograrn is used in the Basque dialectology

Tools for linguistic variation

Índice / Index / Sommaire:- Introducción a los problemas y métodos según los principios de la Escuela Dialectométrica de Salzburgo (con ejemplos sacados del “Atlante Italo-Svizzero”, AIS) (Hans Goebl).- Some further dialectometrical stops (John Nerbonne, Jelena Prokic, Martijn Wieling and Charlotte Gooskens).- Tools for dialect syntax: the case of CORDIAL-SIN (an annotated corpus of Portuguese dialects) (Ernestina Carrilho).- Le projet Vivaldi: présentation d’un atlas linguistique parlant virtual (Roland Bauer).- Le Thesaurus Occitan: une base de données multimedia consacrée aux dialectes occitans (Guylaine Brun-Trigaud).- The Thesaurus Occitan: a multimedia database dedicated to Occitan dialects; presentation of its morphosyntax module (Pierre-Aurélien Georges).- New methods for the study of grammatical variation and the Audible Corpus of Spoken Rural Spanish (Inés Fernández Ordóñez).- The application of speech synthesis and speech recognition techniques in dialectal studies (María Pilar Perea).- Relevancia del análisis lingüístico en el tratamiento cuantitativo de la variación dialectal (Esteve Clua).- El procesamiento informático de los materiales del Atlas Lingüístico de la Península Ibérica de Tomás Navarro Tomás (Pilar García Mouton).- Un retrato del artículo vasco en el año 1895 mediante el programa VDM (Ekaitz Santazilia).- Technology for prosodic variation (Gotzon Aurrekoetxea and Aitor Iglesias)