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Peer reviewedBlack, Paul – Language Sciences, 1972
Author funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Consilium for African Studies of Yale University. Research undertaken with the cooperation of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies of Haile Selassie I University. (VM)
Descriptors: Afro Asiatic Languages, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Download full textBlack, Paul – Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique de Louvain, 1973
As the several specific applications in this paper demonstrate, multidimensional scaling provides a long-needed means for investigating and describing spatial relationships among speech varieties. It is especially applicable to the relationships among varieties of a single language (or more properly, linguistic "cline"), which, as is…
Descriptors: African Languages, American Indian Languages, Bikol, Comparative Analysis
