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Computerizing the Bay Area German Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

Irmengard Rauch ,
Byron Schiffman  and
Gregory Trauth
Irmengard Rauch
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Byron Schiffman
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Gregory Trauth
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
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Abstract

With an IBM-AT with 30 megabyte hard disk and eight-color plotter, significant configurations were uncovered among an ensemble of linguistic and sociolinguistic factors immediately accountable for the variable weak/strong inflection in a given set of contemporary German verbs. A spreadsheet produced matrices which show, in nine figures, the intersection of linguistic data with demographic data such as length of Bay Area residency, occupation, education, sex, geographic origin, as well as differential results based on two distinct methods of fieldwork data elicitation. Twenty-six native speakers of German residing in the San Francisco Bay Area served as informants.

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Research Article
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Journal of Germanic Linguistics , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , July 1989 , pp. 177 - 198
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Germanic Linguistics 1989

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