This panel aims to showcase research in the field of lectometry. In this field, quantitative measures are employed to aggregate over linguistic variables in order to establish the relative similarity (or distance) between different lects. These lects are collections of linguistic features that can vary along any extra-linguistic contextual dimension in the broadest sense possible (Geeraerts, Grondelaers & Bakema 1994: 4). Given the definition above, several fields of linguistic research fall within the scope of lectometry. Specifically, in dialectometry, stylometry, sociolectometry and language perception research, distances between lects are studied along the geographical, discursive, social and subjective axis respectively. In this panel, we aim to highlight the range of research questions that can be addressed against the background of lectometry.
The panel’s keynote speaker will be Martijn Wieling (Winner of the 2016 European Young Research Award (EYRA)), who will talk about “New approaches for investigating and analyzing dialectal linguistic variation”.
See website for an extended version of the call for papers: http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/qlvl/lectometrypanel/.
Abstract submission
We invite researchers to submit an anonymized abstract of 400-500 words (excluding references), for 20 minute talks with 10 minutes additional discussion to [log in to unmask] by August 29, 2016. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by September 9, 2016. The online platform on the official ICLaVE website is intended only for panel organisers, or for abstract submissions for the general session.
Panel organisers
The panel on lectometry is organised by: Jocelyne Daems, Karlien Franco, Laura Rosseel* & Melanie Röthlisberger from the Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL) research group at University of Leuven, Belgium and *the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO).
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