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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Dear Corpora colleagues, the total of the speech
sound chains gives us the sound picture of dialects and languages. We measure
the distances with the help of the chi-square valuses. However, in the Internet
or journals I never found such distances. Does it mean that only I measure them?
Of course the linguistic distances may be based on the data of lexico-statistics
or other features. Why not phonetic pictures? Am I correct? Hope you can share
your opinions by writing me to <A
href="mailto:yutamb@mail.ru">yutamb@mail.ru</A> Be well, yours sincerely
Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>