The Dimensionality of Grammatical Variation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7900337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Sankoff (0000-0001-8415-5189), Henrietta Cedergren, Henrietta J Cedergren |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 163 |
| Publication date | 1976-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/413215 |
| OpenAlex | W1986542668 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 5 |
Recent approaches to variability have focused on the rank ordering of linguistic objects (e.g. noun-phrase transformations, environments of phonological reduction rules) or sociolinguistic objects (e.g. speakers, speech communities). These one-dimensional orderings can take various forms, such as implicational scales, squishes, or the ranking of variable constraints. It is suggested here that sometimes a higher dimensional configuration might better represent the variation. Computer-based heuristic procedures, notably multidimensional scaling techniques, are available for investigating the dimensionality of large data sets. In applying such methods to some well-known data, we confirm the one-dimensionality of Ross' collection of tests of noun-phrasiness as well as of the classes of fake NP's; and we confirm the two-dimensionality of the complementizer QUE-deletion rule in Montreal French. The linguistic environment of syllable-final S-reduction for speakers of Panamanian Spanish is shown to be three-dimensional. Phonological data are used to find two sociolinguistically significant dimensions of the speech community
Astronomy · Curse of dimensionality · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Physics · Variation (astronomy) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Analysis of Individual Differences in Multidimensional Scaling Via an N-way Generalization of “Eckart-Young” Decomposition
Multidimensional Scaling by Optimizing Goodness of Fit to a Nonmetric Hypothesis
Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling
Contraction, Deletion, and Inherent Variability of the English Copula
Variable Rules
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 1978 - 2018 (41) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |