Skip to content. | Skip to navigation

Afrikanistik-Aegyptologie-Online

Home / Archive / 2007 / A synchronic lexical study of the Ede language continuum of West Africa: The effects of different similarity judgment criteria / Ede

Document Actions

Ede

Click here to get the file

Size 726.5 kB - File type application/pdf

Language

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Background information on Ede

2.1. Language classification
2.2. Language area
2.3. Population
2.4. Previous linguistic research
2.5. Language development

3. Methodology

3.1. Identification of similar lexical items
3.2. Computation of WordSurv similarity matrices
3.3. Paired t-test and correlation analysis
3.4. Multidimensional scaling

4.1. Statistical Relationships between WLC1 and WLC2
4.2. Clustering of the Ede language varieties

5. Discussion and conclusions

5.1. Clustering of the Ede varieties
5.2. Recommendations for further sociolinguistic research
5.3. Conclusions