Can I guess where you are from? Modeling dialectal morphosyntactic similarities in Brazilian Portuguese
This paper investigates morphosyntactic covariation in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) to assess whether dialectal origin can be inferred from the combined behavior of linguistic variables. Focusing on four grammatical phenomena related to pronouns, correlation and clustering methods are applied to model covariation and dialectal distribution. The results indicate that correlation captures only limited pairwise associations, whereas clustering reveals speaker groupings that reflect regional dialectal patterns. Despite the methodological constraints imposed by differences in sample size requirements between sociolinguistics and computational approaches, the study highlights the importance of int...
| Authors | Manoel Siqueira, Raquel Freitag |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 21 March 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 21 March 2026 |
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