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Measuring Convergence and Divergence in Varieties of Chinese: A Lectometric Approach
CHILECTO is an acronym of the project "Measuring Convergence and Divergence in Varieties of Chinese: A Lectometric Approach", which is sponsored by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship under the H2020 framework (MSCA-IF-2017 grant agreement ID: 793920), awarded to dr. Weiwei Zhang. The project objectives, its organization, the work packages that will be implemented, the main findings and the dissemination activities are described and kept constantly updated on this website.
What can Chinese teach us about the languages of Europe? Sociolinguistic research has obtained important insights into the dynamics of the languages of Europe: the emergence of pluricentric varieties, the global influence of English, the tendency towards informalization of the standard languages. But are these phenomena typically European, or are the same forces at work in other linguistic areas? A comparison with Chinese may provide an answer: the project CHILECTO analyzes three regional varieties of Chinese (mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore) from the same perspectives that have been applied to the convergences and divergences of European languages, and with the same (quantitative, so-called ‘lectometric’) methods. And the data that we obtained for the current evolution of Chinese will deepen the understanding of the European tendencies. For instance, does the size of the languages involved play a role, or the kind of language policies at work in the different countries?
Project objective
Project objective
The overall objective of the project CHILECTO is to explore processes of convergence and divergence among lexicons in Chinese language varieties (with a special emphasis on Mainland Chinese, Taiwan Chinese, Singapore Chinese) by using a quantitative lectometric approach. To achieve the project objectives, we have conducted six scientific and training work packages.
Objective 1
Objective 1
to evaluate lectometric measurements and establish a methodological guideline with which lexical variation among lects can be structured more comprehensively and cost-efficiently
Objective 2
Objective 2
to identify the multifactorial variational structure that underlies the Chinese lexicon in written texts from a synchronic point of view
Objective 3
Objective 3
to examine how the stratificational distances among lects are changing progressively across time and to confront with what we find for Chinese and what we know about the processes in Europe
Objective 4
Objective 4
to put the research fellow in the strongest possible position to obtain the best career possibilities and new collaboration opportunities through extensive and structured training activities
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