qlcVisualize (version 0.4)

dialects: Multiple correspondences of "f"-like sounds in German Dialects

Description

In total 34 different words in which an f-like sound occurs. The different pronunciations of this sound in 183 different German villages are included in this dataset.

Usage

data(dialects)

Format

List of 2:

villages

Dataframe with two variables LONGITUDE and LATITUDE for all 183 villages.

data

Matrix with 34 columns showing the pronunciation in the 183 villages.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# might give error message because of non-ASCII phonetic symbols
data(dialects)
require(mapdata)
map("worldHires", "Germany", fill = TRUE, col = "grey90")

lmap(dialects$villages, dialects$data[,21]
  , levels = c(0.20, 0.22, 0.24), add = TRUE, position = "topleft")

title(main = "f-sound in \'Kochlöffel\'")
}