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Multidimensional Scaling Applied to Linguistic Relationships.

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Black, 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