Matt_Sung

Our latest paper on tonal dialectometry is out! We explored: 1) whether tonal variation forms a geographical dialect continuum & 2) to what extent is tonal variation correlated with segmental correlation. You can find our paper here: mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/12… @j_prokic

It was a pleasure to be invited by Prof. Bit-Chee Kwok to give a talk at CUHK! I had a great time sharing my PhD research with many like-minded scholars and I enjoyed tge exchange during the Q&A and after the talk a lot~

ふたりの同居記念日なのでわたし史上No.1の尊い手繋ぎ動画を再掲です🦦🦦💓 メイちゃんキラちゃんがずっと一緒に仲良く暮らし続けれますように🥰 📹2025.6.26

My PhD thesis is now available in Open Access!

2021年1月 キラちゃん12歳 鳥羽に行く前のアドベンチャーワールドにて この時もキラちゃん頑張ってる♪と思ったけど今はもっと頑張ってるね✨ メイちゃんとこれからも元気でいてね💕 #ラッコのキラちゃん　#ラッコ #アドベンチャーワールド #鳥羽水族館

ラッコ『キラ』は、本日で入館5周年を迎えました🦦✨これからもよろしくね🌟 #鳥羽水族館 #ラッコ #ラッコのキラちゃん

ちょうど鳥羽水に来ていたので、この記事を読んでメイちゃんママにもご挨拶。ポテトさんは亡くなった子をしばらく離さなくて大変だったそう。乗せているのはその子なのかな😭 だからなのかメイちゃんのことは赤ちゃんじゃなくなってもお腹に乗せていたらしいです。 #鳥羽水族館 #ラッコ #ポテト #剥製

ポテトママだったの？！

こうなってはもう誰も止められないんじゃ．． #鳥羽水族館 #ラッコのメイちゃん #ラッコのキラちゃん #ラッコ #seaotter

My dissertation has arrived! Next: defence and graduation in less than a month!

@odayakaninarou ポテトママ? 😂

メイちゃんが四角になった！😂 角刈りメイちゃん😂

いっぱいリロくんで溢れてるね それぞれ皆の想いが温かいなぁ 会ったことなくても好きになった方 ほんと沢山いるもんね😌 私の周りにも沢山いる ほんと魅力たっぷりなリロくん 私もその魅力にどっぷり引き込まれた 同じ時代に出会えた事に感謝です リロくん「ありがとう」

It's been a year since you left us, we miss you! 🥺

I was invited by the University of Amsterdam to give a talk on computational dialectology today at the ACLC Seminar. It was a pleasure to present there and I had a great time discussing issues in dialectology (on Yue, German, Italian) and methods. What a great day!

Let's see when I will be able to give these workshops again in the near future~

I am very happy to share that my dialectology/ dialectometry workshop series has ended on a high note! We went through some contemporary approaches around the world, incl. modern field methods, explanatory and tonal dialectometry, comparison of different linguistic levels etc.

Today, we looked at corpus-based approaches in dialectometry. I gave my students a variety of texts and asked them to come up with ways to compare dialects, followed by going through existing ways in doing corpus dialectometry, including works from @JWGrieve and my own.

And based these analyses, they proposed a classification based on what they see in MDS, cluster analysis and network maps. After that, I introduced what other uses of dialectometric techniques there could be, beyond dialect classification.

My students gave some presentations on their data exploration project on Irish, Korean and Kyushu Japanese (gratitudes to the people who shared their data with me for my classes) today. They showed us their interpretations of the dialect distances...

In today's dialectometry workshop, we looked at how to classify dialects using cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling. After introducing these methods, I did a demo using a dialectometric app I wrote, on @j_prokic's Bulgarian data.

@JLingPystynen I have to double check, but based on what I remember from the MDS plot, I think there wasn't much overlap, though of course our eyes may struggle to perceive some of the fine differences shown in the map. If this is shown on a scatter plot, you will see the differences better

@Dialect_Matt Are any two colors here supposed to be the same?

I was trying to redraw Leinonen's (2010) MDS map of Swedish dialects, for both my class and a paper that I am writing at the moment. Because I don't have the original data, I can only redraw what's on Leinonen's map (in raster). Here's the result: