학술논문
Pluricentricity from a quantitative point of view
Document Type
Chapter
Author
Geeraerts, Dirk, author; Speelman, Dirk, author; Heylen, Kris, author; Montes, Mariana, author; De Pascale, Stefano, author; Franco, Karlien, author; Lang, Michael, author
Source
Lexical Variation and Change : A Distributional Semantic Approach, 2023, ill.
Subject
Language
English
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.