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Peer reviewedBasso, Keith H. – Language in Society, 1972
Research made possible by a National Science Foundation Institutional grant to the University of Arizona. (VM)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Behavior, Classification, Environmental Influences
Peer reviewedBerlin, Brent – Language in Society, 1972
Earlier draft of this paper prepared with the fellowship support of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and a grant from the National Science Foundation, and distributed as Working Paper No. 39, Language-Behavior Research Laboratory (March 1971). (VM)
Descriptors: Botany, Classification, Cultural Enrichment, Diachronic Linguistics
Peer reviewedHorvath, Barbara; Sankoff, David – Language in Society, 1987
Suggests the use of principal components analysis as an alternative solution to the problem of grouping speakers by sociological characteristics prior to quantitative analysis. An example is presented of its application to vowel variation data collected as part of a sociolinguistic survey of English in Sydney, Australia. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Classification, English, Ethnic Groups, Factor Analysis
