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

1983年，主要研究人员开发了SEAL，这是一种用于处理地理语言学数据的个人计算机系统。从一开始，不仅绘制语言地图，而且整合不同的语言地图一直是人们关注的焦点。主要研究者最近的研究成果表明，通过比较年轻一代和老一代的新数据，地理语言学方法可以有效地研究语言的变化。因此，在本研究项目中，促进了来自不同资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)方言调查在德岛和新泻进行。将新获得的结果与以前的数据进行比较，并检查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.