Quantitative Social Dialectology: Explaining Linguistic Variation Geographically and Socially
Figure 5
Contrast between nouns as opposed to verbs/adjectives and distance from the standard language.
Upper left: distance predicted only from longitude and latitude. Upper right: the geographical distribution of random slopes for the contrast between nouns as opposed to verbs and adjectives. Bottom panels: the combined effect of geography and the word category on pronunciation distance for verbs/adjectives (panel V) and nouns (panel N). Darker shades of gray denote smaller values, lighter shades indicate larger values.