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The Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects (SAND) corpus is one of the outputs of a large-scale dialect syntax project conducted between 2000 and 2003 in The Netherlands and the Dutch-speaking parts of Belgium and France.1 The goal of the project was twofold:
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To create an electronic atlas serving as a tool for linguistic research. This freely accessible web-based dynamic atlas (DynaSand; http:// www.meertens.nl/sand/)consists of a data corpus, a user-friendly search engine and cartographic software for the online generation of maps. It contains data from 267 dialects collected in oral and telephone interviews and in a postal survey.
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To produce a more traditional printed atlas that visualizes syntactic variation in the dialects of Dutch. Every map in the atlas is provided with: (a) a linguistic description of specific syntactic variables, (b) a discussion of the attested geographical distribution (including a diachronic perspective when that is applicable), and (c) a bibliography. Volume I (Barbiers et al. appeared in June 2005. Volume II is expected to appear in 2007).
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Further reading
DynaSAND: http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/sand/ CGN (Corpus of Spoken Dutch): http://lands.let.kun.nl/cgn/home.htm EAGLES (Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards): http://www.ilc.cnr.it/EAGLES96/home.html Edisyn: http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/projecten/edisyn/ Praat (P. Boersma and D. Weenink): http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/
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Barbiers, S., Cornips, L., Kunst, J.P. (2007). The Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects (SAND): A Corpus of Elicited Speech and Text as an Online Dynamic Atlas. In: Beal, J.C., Corrigan, K.P., Moisl, H.L. (eds) Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230223936_4
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