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Researchers are mapping the shift in Swiss German dialect usage<\/a> via an iOS app<\/a>. The app asks\u00a0users to take a 16-question survey based on maps from a language atlas that mapped Swiss German usage circa 1950.\u00a0The app predicts the user’s actual home dialect location based on those maps; differences between that prediction and the user’s actual home dialect location reveal how Swiss German has changed over time. They ended up getting responses\u00a0from 60,000\u00a0speakers.\u00a0PLOS ONE<\/em> article<\/a>. [via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Researchers are mapping the shift in Swiss German dialect usage via an iOS app. The app asks\u00a0users to take a 16-question survey based on maps from a language atlas that mapped Swiss German usage circa… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[261,259,260,258],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-linguistics","tag-crowdsourcing","tag-german","tag-ios","tag-switzerland","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2099,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/06\/mapping-the-decline-of-english-dialects\/","url_meta":{"origin":772,"position":0},"title":"Mapping the Decline of English Dialects","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 June 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Using a mobile app launched last January (iPhone, Android), similar to the one used\u00a0to study Swiss German dialect usage, Cambridge researchers have amassed a huge dataset of English language usage\u00a0and\u00a0are using it to map the decline in regional dialect words and pronunciations.\u00a0[The Telegraph]","rel":"","context":"In "Linguistics"","block_context":{"text":"Linguistics","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/linguistics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"english-dialects-arm","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/english-dialects-arm-1024x731.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/english-dialects-arm-1024x731.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/english-dialects-arm-1024x731.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/english-dialects-arm-1024x731.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3305,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/11\/mapping-swiss-mortality\/","url_meta":{"origin":772,"position":1},"title":"Mapping Swiss Mortality","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"7 November 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Earlier this year, a study in the\u00a0Swiss Medical Weekly explored the spatial patterns of Swiss mortality\u00a0rates between 2008 and 2012. 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