Senahid Halilović (chief of the project), Mehmed Kardaš, Amela Ljevo-Ovčina, Emira Mešanović-Meša 2020. Bosanskohercegovački lingvistički atlas I: Fonetika. Sarajevo: Slavistički komitet. ISBN 978-9958-648-28-1.

Abstract

Dialectology, in the broadest sense, studies language variation. Although the term “dialect” can have several referents, it most often denotes traditional rural speech, as unaffected as possible by interference from the standard language or other contact elements. Linguists normally record this speech in situ, either by immersing themselves in the local speech through extensive residence (and then writing a full grammar of this local speech system), or by visiting a number of different areas and then comparing the results along different parameters.