La Dialectometrització dels quatre primers volums de l'ALDC : una breu presentació

Abstract

The present article constitutes a preliminary report on the dialectometrization of the first four volumes of the Catalan linguistic atlas ALDC («Atlas Lingüístic del Domini Català») according to the theoretical and practical principles of the «Salzburg School of Dialectometry». After a brief description of the techniques used to evaluate the original data in the ALDC and to create the tables for the data and the measurements showing similarity between paired character-vectors in the data, there is an introduction followed by 16 colour maps produced by the dialectometric rogramme «Visual DialectoMetry» (VDM). These 16 graphics, mostly in the form of choropleth maps, contain two working maps, six similarity maps, two isoglossic maps, two parameter maps, two correlation maps and two dendrograms with their spatial equivalents («spatialization maps»). The empirical nature and scientific importance of the results are perfectly in line with all the other dialectometrizations of Romance and non-Romance linguistic atlases carried out under the auspices of the EDMS, and confirm the high geolinguistic quality of the raw data from the ALDC.