La Dialectometrització dels quatre primers volums de l'ALDC : una breu presentació

El present article representa un primer balanç de la dialectometrització del volums I-IV de l'Atles Lingüístic del Domini Català (ALDC) segons els principis teòrics i pràctics de l'«Escola Dialectomètrica de Salzburg» (EDMS). Després d'una descripció de la «taxació» (és a dir, de la mesura taxadora) de les dades originals de l'ALDC, de l'establiment de la matriu de dades i de la matriu de similituds, segueixen la presentació i la interpretació detallades de 16 gràfics policroms generats mitjançant el programa dialectomètric «Visual DialectoMetry» (VDM). Els 16 gràfics esmentats contenen, majoritàriament sota la forma cartogràfica de mapes coroplètics, dos mapes de treball, sis mapes de similitud, dos mapes isoglòtics, dos mapes de paràmetres, dos mapes de correlació i dues anàlisis dendrogràfiques amb representació espacial. La naturalesa empírica i la importància científica dels resultats s'arrengleren perfectament a les de totes les altres dialectometritzacions fetes d'atles lingüístics romànics i no romànics sota els auspicis de l'EDMS i confirma l'alta qualitat geolingüística de les dades brutes de l'ALDC.The present article constitutes a preliminary report on the dialectometrization of the first four volumes of the Catalan linguistic atlas ALDC («Atlas Lingüístic del Domini Català») according to the theoretical and practical principles of the «Salzburg School of Dialectometry». After a brief description of the techniques used to evaluate the original data in the ALDC and to create the tables for the data and the measurements showing similarity between paired character-vectors in the data, there is an introduction followed by 16 colour maps produced by the dialectometric rogramme «Visual DialectoMetry» (VDM). These 16 graphics, mostly in the form of choropleth maps, contain two working maps, six similarity maps, two isoglossic maps, two parameter maps, two correlation maps and two dendrograms with their spatial equivalents («spatialization maps»). The empirical nature and scientific importance of the results are perfectly in line with all the other dialectometrizations of Romance and non-Romance linguistic atlases carried out under the auspices of the EDMS, and confirm the high geolinguistic quality of the raw data from the ALDC

Regards dialectométriques sur les donées de l'"Atlas linguistique de la France" (ALF): Relations quantitatives et structures de profondeur

This paper describes, with the help of geolinguistic data drawn from the linguistic Atlas of France by Jules Gilliéron and Edmond Edmont (ALF), the theoretical and methodological approach and the typodiagnostic possibilities of modern dialectometry (DM), whose central aim is to discover the underlying diatopic structures that geolinguists are normally not able to observe directly. The paper has 5 black-and-white figures and 24 full-page colour maps, and it provides a detailed introduction to the following procedures in dialectometry: interpointDM (measuring distances between points), similarity DM (measuring the similarities between the all the ALF points taken into account), characteristic-parameter DM, and dendrographic DM. The result is a very detailed overview of the genesis and current structure of the Gallo-Romance area as it appears from cross-linking the 638 survey points and the transcriptions identified in the 626 plates of the ALF taken into account

Sur le changement macrolinguistique survenu entre 1300 et 1900 dans le domaine d'oïl. Une étude diachronique d'inspiration dialectométrique1

With the supply of 4 figures and 24 closely interpreted dialectometrical maps, this paper analyses the linguistic change of the geolinguistic deep structures in Northern France (Domaine d’Oïl) between 1300 and 1900. As a matter of fact, the result will show – with some well explainable exceptions – the great stability of these deep structures. The two empirical bases are, on the one hand, the scripta-atlas of the Amsterdam Romanist Anthonij Dees of Northern France (published in 1980) and the “Atlas linguistique de la France” (ALF) of Jules Gilliéron and Edmond Edmont (1902-1910). Whereas the Dees-atlas is based on the philological exploitation of 3300 medieval non literary documents (charters) and therefore refers to written materials, the ALF contains oral materials which have been collected by field work and standardized interviews with competent dialect speakers. For to comparison of the two empirical levels (scripturality and orality) we use well experienced methods of the “Salzburg School of Dialectometry” like similarity maps, parameter maps, interpoint maps, correlation maps and trees

Regards dialectométriques sur les donées de l'"Atlas linguistique de la France" (ALF): Relations quantitatives et structures de profondeur

This paper describes, with the help of geolinguistic data drawn from the linguistic Atlas of France by Jules Gilliéron and Edmond Edmont (ALF), the theoretical and methodological approach and the typodiagnostic possibilities of modern dialectometry (DM), whose central aim is to discover the underlying diatopic structures that geolinguists are normally not able to observe directly. The paper has 5 black-and-white figures and 24 full-page colour maps, and it provides a detailed introduction to the following procedures in dialectometry: interpointDM (measuring distances between points), similarity DM (measuring the similarities between the all the ALF points taken into account), characteristic-parameter DM, and dendrographic DM. The result is a very detailed overview of the genesis and current structure of the Gallo-Romance area as it appears from cross-linking the 638 survey points and the transcriptions identified in the 626 plates of the ALF taken into account

Inspiring Our Pedagogical Imagination: Education Through Relationships, Materials, and Images

The inspiration of the Reggio Emilia approach to early education arises from pedagogical theories and methods based on the relationships and languages from the studio. Intertwined with a fundamental attitude of research, Reggio inspiration can inform pedagogical thinking for all ages, and is of particular interest for art therapy educators. The authors discuss the impact of these ideas on their work of training undergraduate and graduate students in the field of art therapy. They illustrate and discuss the application of key concepts such as the “languages” of learning, relationships, materials and images, along with the ideas of complexity and “making learning visible” through examples of student work

Holistic corpus-based dialectology

This paper is concerned with sketching future directions for corpus-based dialectology. We advocate a holistic approach to the study of geographically conditioned linguistic variability, and we present a suitable methodology, 'corpusbased dialectometry', in exactly this spirit. Specifically, we argue that in order to live up to the potential of the corpus-based method, practitioners need to (i) abandon their exclusive focus on individual linguistic features in favor of the study of feature aggregates, (ii) draw on computationally advanced multivariate analysis techniques (such as multidimensional scaling, cluster analysis, and principal component analysis), and (iii) aid interpretation of empirical results by marshalling state-of-the-art data visualization techniques. To exemplify this line of analysis, we present a case study which explores joint frequency variability of 57 morphosyntax features in 34 dialects all over Great Britain