Unraveling the Overall Picture of Japanese Dialect Variation: What Factors Shape the Big Picture?

We studied the Japanese dialect by calculating aggregated PMI Levenshtein distances among local Japanese dialects using data from 2400 locations and 141 items from the Linguistic Atlas of Japan Database (LAJDB). Through factor analysis, we found the latent linguistic variables underlying the aggrega...

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Main Authors: Wilbert Heeringa, Fumio Inoue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-06-01
Series:Languages
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/10/6/141
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