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9. The Dialect Sample and the Corpus-Quantification Method
How does the grammar select and describe Hokkaido Ainu dialects, and what method does it use to quantify corpus frequencies?
The Hokkaido dialect sample
Which Hokkaido Ainu dialects form the descriptive core of the grammar?
Hattori and Chiri (1960) conducted a basic-vocabulary survey covering 200 items elicited from speakers representing nineteen distinct localities across Hokkaido and Sakhalin (Nakagawa 2024: 100).
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Dialect classification and the isogloss basis
How are Hokkaido Ainu dialects classified based on lexicostatistic and dialectometric studies?
Refsing (1986) asserts that clear and reliable isoglosses cannot be established between Ainu dialects, because investigations have necessarily relied on only one or two speakers per locality (Refsing 1986: 54).
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