| 21. | Historical perceptual dialectology allows linguists to examine how and why dialects in the past gained popularity.
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| 22. | Newman s research in Arabic studies centres on linguistics ( phonetics and dialectology ) and literature.
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| 23. | As professor of English, he was also very active in the field of dialectology in Britain.
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| 24. | Issues with historical perceptual dialectology include relying on the text of the literate population of the past.
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| 25. | Finka's most significant work was in the fields of Croatian and Slavic dialectology and toponymy.
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| 26. | He was also president of the Committee for Kosovo and Metohija and of the Committee for Dialectology.
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| 27. | His contributions in dialectology have given rise to the so called School of Groningen in that field.
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| 28. | Sociolinguistics as a field distinct from dialectology was pioneered through the study of language variation in urban areas.
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| 29. | "' Dialectometry "'is the computational branch of dialectology, the study of dialect.
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| 30. | The principal scholar examining perceptual dialectology is Dennis Preston, and his methodology involves interview-based techniques.
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