Dialect Survey

Determining language boundaries and how many sub-dialects a language has requires travelling to many different villages, transcribing word lists and testing intelligibility. In 2000 and again in 2003 EAG offered practical workshops in sociolinguistic survey to Chinese researchers. Our members have collaborated with Chinese colleagues in doing field research and have published the following survey reports:

Allen, Bryan. 2004a. Baiyu fangyan yanjiu (Bai Dialect Survey). trans Zhang Xia. Kunming:The Nationalities Publishing House of Yunnan.

CASTRO A, CROOK B, FLAMING R. 2010. A sociolinguistic survey of Kua-nsi and related Yi varieties in Heqing county.Yunnan province, China. http://www.sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2010-001

Milliken, Margaret. 1994. Finding the Centers of Communication Networks. In Stuart  Milliken (ed.), SIL Occasional Papers on the Minority Languages of China1. 37- 58.

WU Wenyi, Wil Synder, and LIANG Yongsu. Survey of the Guizhou Bouyei language. Guiyang:   Guizhou People's Press, 2000.7. (in Chinese)