the Determinants of Dialectal Variation project

Interview with Wilbert Heeringa

Dutch radio station Radio Noord interviewed Wilbert Heeringa on 12 april 2007 regarding his awarded request for a VENI grant. The interview is available here (in Dutch).

Interview met Wilbert Heeringa

Radio Noord interviewde op 12 april 2007 Wilbert Heeringa in verband met zijn toegekende aanvraag voor een VENI subsidie. Het interview is hier te beluisteren.

Presentation: Three quantitative perspectives on syntactic variation

Marco Ren� Spruit presented the biweekly ACLC lecture on 23 March 2007 about quantitative perspectives in linguistic research under the title 'Three quantitative perspectives on syntactic variation'. The complete presentation is available here as well as the accompanying handout.

Presentatie: Drie kwantitatieve perspectieven op syntactische variatie

Marco Ren� Spruit heeft op 23 maart 2007 de tweewekelijkse ACLC lezing verzorgd over kwantiatieve benaderingen in taalkundig onderzoek onder de titel 'Three quantitative perspectives on syntactic variation'. De volledige presentatie is hier beschikbaar en de bijbehorende handout staat hier.

Presentation: Associations among linguistic levels

On July 7th 2006, Marco Rene Spruit presented joint research by Wilbert Heeringa, John Nerbonne and Marco Rene Spruit at the Digital Humanities 2006 conference at the Sorbonne University in Paris. The presentation showed the degrees of association among pronunciation, lexis and syntax, after correcting for geography as an underlying, structuring factor: Associations among linguistic levels.

Presentatie: Associations among linguistic levels

Op 7 juli 2006 heeft Marco Rene Spruit op de Digital Humanities 2006 conferentie aan de Sorbonne in Parijs de presentatie Associations among linguistic levels gegeven, over het gezamenlijke onderzoek van Wilbert Heeringa, John Nerbonne en Marco Rene Spruit. Deze presentatie toonde de mate van overeenkomst tussen uitspraak, woordgebruik en zinsbouw, na correctie van de onderliggende, structurerende invloed van geografische afstand: Associations among linguistic levels.

Job opening: Researcher/Post Doc, Computational Linguistics, Groningen

Researcher/postdoc Computational Linguistics/Phonetics
Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
80%-100%

Applications are invited for a researcher/postdoc position at the Faculty of Arts, in the research institute Center for Language and Cognition Groningen. The successful applicant will join the project ‘Linguistic determinants of mutual intelligibility in Scandinavia’ which is funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). The aim of the project is to refine newly developed computational methods in order to quantify communicatively relevant similarity between closely related languages such as the Scandinavian languages. The similarity measurements will be used to develop a model for predicting and explaining mutual intelligibility. The candidate will cooperate closely with a PhD-student and a senior researcher. The full project description can be downloaded from: http://www.let.rug.nl/~gooskens/vidi.

Presentation: Measuring syntactic variation in Dutch dialects

On August 5th, 2005, Marco Ren� Spruit presented current research regarding the application of dialectometric methods on purely syntactic Dutch dialect data at the Methods XII: Twelfth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology conference in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada: Measuring syntactic variation in Dutch dialects.

Presentatie: Measuring syntactic variation in Dutch dialects

Op 5 augustus 2005 heeft Marco Ren� Spruit op de conferentie Methods XII: Twelfth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, het lopende onderzoek gepresenteerd aangaande het toepassen van dialectometrische methoden op puur syntactische, Nederlandstalige dialectgegevens: Measuring syntactic variation in Dutch dialects.

Aggregating Syntactic Variation: The Forest behind the Trees

On June 25th, 2005, John Nerbonne and Marco Rene Spruit gave a presentation at the International Conference on LAnguage Variation in Europe (ICLaVE) workshop Quantitative Analysis of Language Variation in Time and Space about the Determinants of Dialectal Variation research project in general and the Syntax subproject in particular: Aggregating Syntactic Variation: The Forest behind the Trees.