New linguistic tools can predict your dialect characteristics

Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 00:33 in Mathematics & Economics

A new linguistic study may make it possible to more accurately predict the dialect features people use based on their demographic characteristics and where they live. In a new article, researchers used statistical modeling techniques to predict whether speakers in Tuscany use words from standard Italian or words unique to local dialects.

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