Abstract
It is common in Dialectology the use of linguistic distances aiming to the delimitation of dialects. Different statistical techniques have been applied in modern dialectology to draw dialectal boundaries. So far little work has been published about the determinants of language variation. In this contribution, we propose a two step method (combining Principal Components and Cluster Analysis) in order to get a dialectal classification of localities using distances from standard Basque to a number of local varieties of the Basque language. In addition, we determine, on the one hand, which lexical features have caused the greatest variation in the different dialect areas and, on the other hand, which localities are the most representative ones in each dialect area.
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