Low Saxon dialect distances at the orthographic and syntactic level

Janine Siewert, Yves Scherrer, Martijn Wieling

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Abstract

We compare five Low Saxon dialects from the 19th and 21st century from Germany and the Netherlands with each other as well as with modern Standard Dutch and Standard German. Our comparison is based on character n-grams on the one hand and PoS n-grams on the other and we show that these two lead to different distances. Particularly in the PoS-based distances, one can observe all of the 21st century Low Saxon dialects shifting towards the modern majority languages.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change
EditorsNina Tahmasebi, Syrielle Montariol, Andrey Kutuzov, Simon Hengchen, Haim Dubossarsky, Lars Borin
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages119-124
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781955917421
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event3rd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, LChange 2022 - Dublin, Ireland
Duration: 26-May-202227-May-2022

Conference

Conference3rd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, LChange 2022
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityDublin
Period26/05/202227/05/2022

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