Pluricentricity from a quantitative point of view
Year: 2023
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This chapter illustrates how the distributional semantic lectometric workflow can be applied to Spanish language data in a large-scale lectometric study of the pluricentricity of Spanish. Starting with a dataset of 142 concepts, the analysis explores the distances between Spanish in Spain, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, and the United States. The lectometric workflow presented so far is enriched with a number of methodological add-ons: a multidimensional scaling analysis to visualize patterns of lectal relations, a restriction to non-uniform concepts to bring out differences more clearly, and a focus on richly modelled concepts to increase methodological stability. Also, comparing distributional models to both a disambiguated set of tokens and the full sample from which the modelled tokens were drawn serves as a way to evaluate the success of the distributional approach.
Authors: Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk Speelman, Kris Heylen, Mariana Montes, Stefano De Pascale, Karlien Franco, Michael Lang
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4388932297