Hanna Fischer


2023

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Reconstructing Language History by Using a Phonological Ontology. An Analysis of German Surnames
Hanna Fischer | Robert Engsterhold
Tenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2023)

This paper applies the ontology-baseddialectometric technique of Engsterhold(2020) to surnames. The method wasoriginally developed for phonetic analyses. However, as will be shown, it is also suitedfor the study of graphemic representations. Based on data from the German SurnameAtlas (DFA), the method is optimized forgraphemic analysis and illustrated with anexample case.