摘要：This paper presents a computing tool, developed with the statistical software R,which allows a user to perform a dialectometric analysis of the prosodic data in thefixed corpus collected in the AMPER project. Since no previous knowledge aboutusing R is assumed, this tool can be used by any user interested in such studies.The dialectometric analysis that is performed includes calculation of correlationsbetween F0 curves and of prosodic distances between different locations coveredby the corpus (for speakers or any other variable). Once the table of prosodicdistances has been generated, the user can then apply multivariate statisticaltechniques to it, such as multidimensional scaling (MDS) and cluster analysis. Thelatter allows the user to detect the existence of clusters of locations (by speaker oranother variables) according to their closeness in terms of prosodic distance.
