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Sankoff, David; Cedergren, Henrietta J. – Language, 1976
Computer-based multidimensional scaling techniques are used to determine the dimensionality of grammatical variation in three large sets of data: Ross' (1973) Noun Phrase and fake Noun Phrase data; Sankoff's (1974) complementizer "que"-deletion (Montreal French) data; and Cedergren's (1973) syllable-final S-reduction (Panamanian Spanish) data. (DB)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Usage