Study on the Comparison and Integration of Geolinguistic Data and its publication

1983年，主要研究人员开发了SEAL，这是一个用于个人计算机的系统，用于处理地理语言数据。从一开始，不仅关注语言地图的绘制，而且关注不同语言地图的整合。主要研究者的最新成果表明，通过比较前人研究中年轻一代和老一代的新数据，地理语言学方法对于考察语言变化是有用的。因此，在本研究项目中，促进了不同来源的语言地图的比较。(1)从整合的角度重新审视了绘制语言地图和解释方言分布的意义。(2)在德岛县和新泻县进行方言调查。将新获得的结果与之前的数据进行了比较，并考察了在此期间发生的语言变化。

In 1983, the main researcher developed SEAL, a system for personal computers with which geolinguistic data is processed. Since the beginning, not only drawing a linguistic map but also integrating different linguistic maps has been focused.The main researcher’s recent achievements demonstrated that the geolinguistic approach is useful to examine the language change by comparing the new data of the young generation with that of the old generation from previous researches. Thus in this research project, the comparison of linguistic maps from different resources has been promoted. (1) The meaning of making linguistic maps and interpreting dialectal distributions was reexamined from the viewpoint of the integration. (2) The dialectal survey was conducted in Tokunoshima and Niigata. The newly obtained results were compared with the previous data and the language changes happening during the period were examined.