dialect geography

In some respects, it may not be long before certain aspects of dialect geography will be largely historical.

"French dialect geography in North America."

She specialized in linguistics and her thesis treated "the importance of dialect geography for the perception of sound changes."

It is understandable that they steered clear of his field, for when it came to dialect geography, Mr. Berger had few peers.

Deutsche Dialektgeographie 54 [German Dialect Geography], Marburg, 1959.

Georg Wenker (January 25, 1852 - July 17, 1911) was a German linguist who began documenting German dialect geography during the late nineteenth century.

Dialect Geography of Syria-Palestine, 1000-586 B.C.E. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Laurence Urdang Word Maps Dialect geography, a branch of dialectology, describes certain features of the dialects of a language and their distribution.

Like this thesis supervisor Otto Behaghel, Maurer directed much attention to the study of dialects (dialectology and dialect geography), as well as the comparative linguistics of German.

A survey of the dialect geography of six towns of Pangasinan: Bautista, Pozorrubio, Dagupan City, Lingayen, Alaminos, Mangatarem.

Whether the correspondences between Luwian, Carian, and Lycian are due to direct descent (i.e. a language family as represented by a tree-model), or are due to dialect geography, is disputed.

Through his Gullah research, he gave shape to several academic specialties: Gullah studies, dialect geography and creole linguistics, as well as being an important predecessor to the field of African American studies, which developed in the 1960s and '70s.

In other words, "in terms of dialect geography, at the time of the tannaim Palestine could be divided into the Aramaic-speaking regions of Galilee and Samaria and a smaller area, Judaea, in which Rabbinic Hebrew was used among the descendants of returning exiles."