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Corpus Dialectology
Edited by Elissa Pustka, Carmen Quijada Van den Berghe and Verena Weiland
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 110] 2023
► pp. 10–33

On the validity of crowdsourced data

| University of Verona
| University of Trento
| University of Verona

This chapter demonstrates the validity of crowdsourced data by comparing the crowdsourced data from the VinKo project with traditionally collected data from the AThEME project. Both datasets target non-standard language varieties of the South Tyrol, Trentino, and Veneto regions in north-eastern Italy. Three different morphosyntactic phenomena are discussed, each relating to a particular language variety, providing evidence that the crowdsourced data is of comparable quality to the traditionally gathered data and has the added advantage of yielding a larger overall dataset covering a denser location network.

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The AThEME and VinKo projects
  • 3.VinKo platform design and data collection methods
    • 3.1Data collection
    • 3.2Representation
    • 3.3Technical aspects
  • 4.VinKo and AThEME data in comparison: three case studies
    • 4.1Tyrolean dialects: pronominal case patterns
    • 4.2Trentino dialects: agreement with a postverbal subject
    • 4.3Venetan dialects: obligatory and optional subject proclitics
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 14 August 2023
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