Evaluating dialect in discourse: Teachers' and teenagers' responses to young English speakers in Wales

1999 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER GARRETT ◽  
NIKOLAS COUPLAND ◽  
ANGIE WILLIAMS
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Multidimensional Scaling ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Additive Effects ◽  
School Students ◽  
Dialect Variation ◽  
Regional Dialect ◽  
English Dialect

School students (15–16 years) in six regions of Wales were recorded telling stories in their local English dialects. Some of these narratives were used as samples representing the main English dialect regions in Wales. Comparable groups of students (n = 169) and a group of teachers (n = 47) rated the audio-recorded speakers on a number of scales of affiliation, status, and Welshness. Statistical analysis of their ratings, employing cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling, made it possible to detect some of the competing or additive effects of dialect and narrative features. Judgments of “Welshness” of the speaker/narratives were grounded in the regional dialect properties; but other judgments, such as the likability of the speakers, tended to draw on features of both dialect and narrative. In addition, comparison of students and teachers revealed differences in their evaluations of particular dialect communities and the characteristics of the narratives. The findings illustrate the importance of approaching the analysis of dialect variation within the broader context of speech and discourse performance.

Statistical Analysis of Personnel Data Using Factor Scoring Cluster Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling

1973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert R. Read ◽  
Richard S. Elster ◽  
Gerald L. Musgrave ◽  
John W. Creighton ◽  
William H. Githens
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Multidimensional Scaling

Situating Valency Theory in functional-cognitive space

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 348-398
Author(s):  
Francisco Gonzálvez-García ◽  
Christopher S. Butler
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Multidimensional Scaling ◽  
Hierarchical Cluster Analysis ◽  
Hierarchical Cluster ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Questionnaire Item ◽  
Broad Group ◽  
Cognitive Space ◽  
German Syntax

Abstract This article builds on the work reported in Butler and Gonzálvez-García (2014), in which 16 functional and/or cognitive/constructionist theories were compared on the basis of questionnaires completed by experts and a reading of the literature on each approach. The aim is to extend this work to cover Valency Theory (VT henceforth), arguably the most widely used approach to the study of German syntax. We first report on a statistical analysis (correlation, multidimensional scaling and hierarchical cluster analysis) of the data from the questionnaires completed by two VT experts, in relation to those completed by experts in other approaches. We then present an analysis of each item in the questionnaire in relation to VT, leading to a positive or negative evaluation for each questionnaire item. The results are again analysed statistically. The picture that emerges is of a theory which, though distinctive, has clear relationships with a broad group of cognitively-oriented approaches.

Hands off the metadata!: Comparing the use of explicit and background metadata in crowdsourced dialectology

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (s1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamsin Blaxter ◽  
David Britain
Keyword(s):  
Language Variation ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Smartphone Application ◽  
Background Information ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Language Variation And Change ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dialect Variation ◽  
Regional Dialect

Abstract In this article we assess the extent to which we can collect plausible data about regional dialect variation using crowdsourcing techniques – the BBC Future Survey – without explicitly gathering any user metadata, but relying instead on background information collected by Google Analytics. In order to do this, we compare this approach with another crowdsourced survey, operated from a smartphone application, which examines the same site – the British Isles – but which explicitly asks users to submit detailed social background information – the English Dialects App (EDA) (Leemann et al. 2018). The EDA has the disadvantage that there is a considerable user drop-off between completing the dialect survey and completing the social metadata questionnaire. The BBC Future Survey, however, only collects information on where users are physically located when they complete the survey – not where they are from or even where they live. Results show that the BBC Future Survey produces a plausible snapshot of regional dialect variability that can complement other more sophisticated (expensive, time-consuming) approaches to investigating language variation and change. We suggest the approach constitutes a digital-era rapid anonymous survey along the lines of Labov (1972), serving similar aims, with similar success, but on a much much larger scale.

An investigation on conceptual understanding about cosmology

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S367) ◽  
pp. 397-399
Author(s):  
Arturo Colantonio ◽  
Irene Marzoli ◽  
Italo Testa ◽  
Emanuella Puddu
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Hierarchical Cluster Analysis ◽  
Hierarchical Cluster ◽  
Content Area ◽  
School Students ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Teaching Activities

AbstractIn this study, we identify patterns among students beliefs and ideas in cosmology, in order to frame meaningful and more effective teaching activities in this amazing content area. We involve a convenience sample of 432 high school students. We analyze students’ responses to an open-ended questionnaire with a non-hierarchical cluster analysis using the k-means algorithm.

Binge Drinking e prospettiva temporale in adolescenza

2009 ◽  
pp. 75-90
Author(s):  
Fiorenzo Laghi
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Alcohol Expectancies ◽  
Drinking Patterns ◽  
School Students ◽  
Risky Behaviour ◽  
Heavy Drinkers ◽  
High Risk Drinking

- The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of both alcohol expectancies and time perspective on this risky behaviour in order to allow the development of future prevention programs, by evaluating the relationships between these variables. 2075 high school students were asked to fulfil different questionnaires concerning their consumption attitude, their beliefs on alcohol, and their time perspective. According to previous studies, the sample was classified in non drinkers, social, binge and heavy drinkers. Consistent with our hypothesis, statistical analysis showed that both alcohol expectancies and time perspective significantly differ within these groups, thus being powerful predictors of high risk drinking patterns.

scholarly journals Morphological phenotypic dispersion of garlic cultivars by cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling

2014 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anderson Rodrigo da Silva ◽  
Paulo Roberto Cecon ◽  
Carlos Tadeu dos Santos Dias ◽  
Mário Puiatti ◽  
Fernando Luiz Finger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Multidimensional Scaling

scholarly journals “Why (Should) I Do Something for the Environment?” Profiles of Flemish Adolescents’ Motivation Toward the Environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 2579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanda Sass ◽  
Jelle Pauw ◽  
Vincent Donche ◽  
Peter Petegem
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
The North ◽  
Dutch Translation ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Senior Secondary ◽  
Person Centered Approach

The Motivation Toward the Environment Scale (MTES), developed in Canada, measures people’s self-determined motivation for doing something for the environment. Answering the call by its original developers, this study further validated the MTES within a sample of 779 Dutch-speaking senior secondary school students, aged 17 to 19, in the north of Belgium. More specifically, reliability and construct validity of a Dutch translation of the MTES were verified. To this measure, confirmatory factor analysis was used, and the hypothesized simplex structure was tested through correlation analyses. Results confirmed the reliability of the MTES and a five-scale version of the MTES, excluding identified motivation, is introduced. This variable-centered approach was complemented by the adoption of a person-centered approach for identifying MTES profiles. Using cluster analysis, four meaningful MTES profiles emerged, with amotivation scoring medium to high in all but one. Theoretical implications of the findings and suggestions for interventions and further research are discussed.

Dimensions of the Rotter Trust Scale

1974 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 999-1004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth B. Stein ◽  
William F. Soskin ◽  
Sheldon J. Korchin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Social Role ◽  
School Students ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Relative Independence ◽  
Trust Scale

A cluster analysis of scores on the Rotter Trust Scale from 70 high school students produced 3 dimensions: (1) Belief in the integrity of social role agents, (2) Belief in the trustworthiness of human motives, and (3) Belief in the dependability of people to do what they say they will do. The internal reliability and the relative independence of the clusters led to treating each as a separate scale. Correlations of the cluster scores with a number of other variables resulted in descriptions of the high scorers for each dimension. Implications for the meaning of trust and directions for further research were discussed.

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