An interview with John Nerbonne (in Dutch, audio: mp3) by Richard Klunder, reporter of Radio Noord, 6 September 2005.
An interview with John Nerbonne (in Dutch, audio: mp3) by Richard Klunder, reporter of Radio Noord, 6 September 2005.
John Nerbonne has done research into several dialect areas. With the the assistence of Peter Kleiweg he has done research into LAMSAS, the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States.
We have an on-line demonstration of the Levenshtein algorithm, a method we use extensively to do dialectometrics.
The CLCG group on Language Variation and Language Change does research into Germanic and Slavic dialects.
Het Nedersaksisch instituut, the institute for Lower-Saxon dialects in the Netherlands, no longer exists. It has been incorporated into the departments for Frisian and Dutch studies, where Hermann Niebaum is the prominent researcher for Lower-Saxon. Read an interview with Hermann Niebaum (in Dutch).
Staff of other language departments are also involved in dialect research. For instance, Charlotte Gooskens at the Scandinavian department.
The Forschungsinstitut für deutsche Sprache in Marburg, Germany.
The Department for Bulgarian Dialectology and Linguistic Geography of the Institute for Bulgarian Language.
Electronic Archive of the Bulgarian Dialects.
For our LAMSAS research, we maintain informal links with members of the Linguistic Atlas Projects in the United States.