Dialect map by mobile phones

[Tyler Schnoebelen]

Work on the Voices of California project got me interested in how people divide up Northern/Southern California, but the data in the following link is probably interesting to anyone thinking about dialectology:
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1664443/infographic-of-the-day-map-of-mobile-calls-reveals-invisible-ties
And as long as I'm giving links, you might find this blog post on "basketball" vs. "bball" vs. "hoops" on Twitter interesting (tomorrow I'll be posting about horse names, fwiw).
http://idibon.com/bball-and-hoops-when-do-synonyms-matter/
Tyler
Tyler Schnoebelenhttp://www.stanford.edu/~tylers/http://corplinguistics.wordpress.comhttp://idibon.com/blog/https://twitter.com/TSchnoebelen                                         
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