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Title Language variation and survey techniques.
 
Author(s) Loving, Richard, ed.
Simons, Gary, ed.
Local Call Num. P 128 .L35 L287 1977
ISBN 9980-0-0060-0
978-9980-00060-6
Status Archived (Parka
Series Workpapers in Papua New Guinea languages.
Pages 350 p.
Publishing Info Ukarumpa, PNG Summer Institute of Linguistics, PNG. 1986, c1977
Loan Type/Days REG-Regular / This item may circulate for 21 Days
Department MIS-Miscellaneous
Media BK-Book
Volume/Issue 21
Subjects Linguistics--Methodology.
Areal linguistics.
Language and languages--Variation--Research.
Language surveys.
Linguistic research--Papua New Guinea.
 
Description ill., maps; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographies.
Spine title: Workpapers in Papua New Guinea languages.

Contents:
The role of purpose and perspective in planning a language survey / Gary Simons -- Guidelines for conducting a lexicostatistic survey in Papua New Guinea / Arden G. Sanders -- Additional bibliography on lexicostatistics -- A basic word list for Papua New Guinea / Bryan Ezard -- Tables of significance for lexicostatistics / Gary Simons -- Recognizing patterns of divergence and convergence in a matrix of lexicostatistic relations / Gary Simons -- Tubetube's place among the Milne Bay Province languages: a synchronic study / Bryan Ezard -- Phonostatistic methods / Gary Simons -- Additional bibliography on structure statistics -- Sociolinguistic approaches to dialect surveying in Papua New Guinea / Sandra Callister -- Cultural considerations in language change and communication / Martin Combs -- Additional bibliography on miltilingualism in relation to language contact, borrowing, change and interference -- Guidelines for intelligibility testing in Papua New Guinea / Linda Simons -- Additional bibliography on intelligibility testing -- Predicting intelligibility: a suggested technique / K.J. Collier -- On defining the center of a linguistic group / Joy Sanders -- Some synchronic analysis procedures for language survey data / Arden G. Sanders -- Guidelines for writing up language surveys / Richard Loving -- Principles of multidialectal orthography design / Gary Simons -- Multidialectal orthographic and lexical adjustments for Orokaiva / Robert E. Larsen