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Science News for February 6, 2016


Cambridge researcher develops smartphone app to map Swiss-German dialects

A smartphone app developed by Cambridge researchers maps Swiss-German dialects through crowdsourcing, gathering data on dialect spread and changes over time. The app has been downloaded over 90,000 times and reveals that younger generations are adopting more geographically widespread variants of the language.

SourceUniversity of Cambridge·JournalPLOS ONE·DateFeb 6, 2016