Publications
Clearing the transcription hurdle in dialect corpus building : the corpus of Southern Dutch dialects as case-study Ghent University
This paper discusses how the transcription hurdle in dialect corpus building can be cleared. While corpus analysis has strongly gained in popularity in linguistic research, dialect corpora are still relatively scarce. This scarcity can be attributed to several factors, one of which is the challenging nature of transcribing dialects, given a lack of both orthographic norms for many dialects and speech technological tools trained on dialect data. ...
Een beknopte klankleer van het Wichelse dialect Ghent University
Ge had dien een ker moeten en zien : het geparste en gesproken corpus van de zuidelijk-Nederlandse dialecten Ghent University
Woordenboek van de Vlaamse dialecten. Deel III : algemene woordenschat. Aflevering 8 : eten en drinken Ghent University
Het gesproken corpus van de zuidelijk-Nederlandse dialecten Ghent University
In this paper, we report on the construction of a linguistically annotated pilot corpus of the southern Dutch dialects, based on existing tape recordings from the 1960s and 1970s.The corpus provides audio aligned transcriptions in two layers, one closer to the dialect and one closer to Standard Dutch, the latter of which is part-of-speech and syntactically tagged. The corpus is intended to facilitate large-scale research into the syntactic ...
De dialectologie en de vrijwilligers Ghent University
Alle dialecten even waardevol? Ghent University
The Dictionary of the Southern Dutch Dialects (DSDD) : designing a virtual research environment for digital lexicological research Ghent University
The southern Dutch dialect area consists of four dialect groups: (1) the Flemish dialects, spoken in French Flanders (France), West and East Flanders (Belgium) and Zeeland Flanders (the Netherlands); (2) the Brabantic dialects, spoken in Antwerp and Flemish Brabant (Belgium) and Northern Brabant (the Netherlands); (3) the Limburgian dialects (spoken in the Limburg provinces of Belgium and the Netherlands); (4) the Zeeland dialects, spoken in ...