Interfacing structured and unstructured data in sociolinguistic research on language change

STRATAS: Interfacing structured and unstructured data in sociolinguistic research on language change/Tekstin ja rakenteisen tiedon yhdistäminen kielenmuutoksen sosiolingvistisessä tutkimuksessa

This project seeks to further the sociolinguistic study of language change by developing new tools that will allow us to ask research questions that have previously been too labour-intensive to answer. The computer science tooling will be developed hand in hand with and in response to the needs of primary humanities research, i.e. the diachronic development of English and Finnish. Specifically, the project will target sociolinguistic variation and change in personal and private writings. In comparison to the printed word, which scholars of linguistic, cultural and social history are increasingly turning to for large amounts of data, manuscript materials give wider access to the varying communicative needs of individuals in the past

Nevalainen, T., Project manager, Department of Modern Languages
Säily, T., Participant, Department of Modern Languages
Sairio, A., Participant, Department of Modern Languages
Kaislaniemi, S., Participant, Department of Modern Languages
Mäkelä, E., Participant, Aalto University
Nordlund, T., Principal investigator, Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies, University of Helsinki
Litola, K., Participant, Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies, University of Helsinki
Utriainen, J., Participant, Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies, University of Helsinki
Isokoski, P., Principal investigator, University of Tampere
Siirtola, H., Participant, University of Tampere

Funder Project Reference: 293009

01/01/2016 → 31/12/2019

Nature of project: _Research
Collaborators: Aalto University, University of Tampere

Project: Research project › _Research