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  <Title>Computational dialectology in Irish Gaelic</Title>
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2 Data
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The data for nay study were taken from Wagner 1958. Wagner administered a questionnaire to native speakers of Irish Gaelic in 86 sites. 2 Most of the informants were over seventy years old and  had not spoken Irish since their youth, The atlas is therefore an approximate reconstruction of the linguistic landscape of the turn of the century, when the Gaeltacht was more continuous. Wagner also presents material from the Isle of Man and seven sites in Scotland. The mapped entries are presented in a very narrow phonetic transcription based on the International Phonetic Alphabet.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Volume 1 of Wagner 1958 consists of 300 maps, plotting about 370 concepts. I used the first 51 concepts, or about 4500 different string tokens, as part of an ongoing project to enter all of the atlas into machine readable format. These 51 concepts were represented by 312 different Gaelic words or phrases, whose stems derived from 171 different etymons.</Paragraph>
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