Table of contents
Introduction
1
Part I.Data collection
9
On the validity of crowdsourced data
10
Variation in space and society
The case of interviewers and transcribers
in a corpus of spoken French (ESLO)
34
Part II.Methodology
59
The
Phonologie du français contemporain project in
Quebec
Methodological considerations and dialectometric
application
60
“Going standard” on a blank page
A corpus-based approach to the written varieties
of the Italian Western Alps minorities
(Occitan, Francoprovençal and Walser)
84
Sociogeographical differences in the pronunciation of Anglicisms in Spanish
Acoustic vowel analysis using multilevel regression models
106
Part III.Case studies
133
Historical corpora and linguistic geography of Spanish
Linguistic variation in Castile and León
134
Dialectology as a matter of gradience
The case of Spanish aoristic present perfect in the
Audible Corpus of Spoken Rural Spanish
(
COSER)
154
Testing Twitter data on a morphosyntactic variable
The expression of the future in American
and Peninsular Spanish
176
Part IV.Theory
197
Sketching out a virtual framework for Romance geolinguistics
198
Index
217