Dialect Areas in Brabant. Geographical Clustering Based on the Raw Lexical Data of the Woordenboek van de Brabantse Dialecten (Dictionary of the Dialects of Brabant)

In the project "digital databases & digital tools for WBD & WLD" (D-square) the dialect data published by the dictionary project Woordenboek van de Brabantse Dialecten ([Dictionary of the Dialects of Brabant] WBD) has been digitized. In this paper we analyze the WBD data using cluster analyses in order to see if we can find detailed dialect patterns in Brabant based on lexical data only. We compare the dialect patterns that we find with the detailed dialect map of Belemans & Goossens (2000). Special attention is given to the characteristics of the raw WBD data & how to cope with them. Adapted from the source document