I should have noted in my page to take caution in using my analysis on the preliminary 2018 data as this was then to be completed. I have more extensive data collected last 2019 for my SEALS presentation with Louward Zubiri, which covers all Aklanon towns. This also includes Sapi-an, Capiz which I initially hypothesized to "gravitate" towards Capiznon, and Pandan, Antique for Kinaray-a. All these total to 19 municipalities with 2 informants each. We applied similarity analysis and visualized through a matrix, a network graph, and a comparative dendrogram. What I labelled as Aklan River Valley has convincing evidence to form one dialect area. You can see all those visualizations below.

There is something that needs further clarification in the case of Madalag, however, which I did not yet note since I felt needs more data to problematize on: My preliminary data on Madalag last 2018 from a less-educated female in her late teens featured irregularities across /ɰ/, /r/, and /l/, and prosodic schwa as you have mentioned in your manuscript. My 2019 data however was from 1 male and 1 female native who were tertiary level students in Kalibo at the time of the data gathering. They did not provide significant deviation except for very few lexical/phonetic features, and these generally converge with the rest of our Aklan River Valley data (but most particularly with Banga). Surprisingly negligible. They insisted that the items provided are commonly used in their area, and they have never noticed anything different from the elderly. They also said they have not heard any of the features found in my 2018 data.

I cannot yet make firm comments on Malaynon since I would yet to gather sentence-based data given its still limbo status. Surprisingly from the lexical and phonetic data alone, same as the Ibajay and Tangalan data, it is not far from Aklan River Valley in comparison to Buruanga. The other deviant data is consistently Nabas plus those from Pandan and Sapian. In comparison to your observations on Ibajay and Tangalan, and the lack of notable features in my data, I believe more investigation is needed. Uploaded here by the way is the wordlist we used for the analysis which includes those for Malaynon, Nabas, Madalag, and what I believe should be for Sapian, not Panit-an.

I also do not understand why Uy-Griño became part of the picture when I did not provide extensive discussion of Capiznon. I was rather planning to extend my data in the future to the boundary towns because Capiznon has a lot of issues. Reports of "Capiznon" from several respondents in an unrelated study are different from what Ubal (1979) and Uy-Griño (2011) describe. Those same people who have lived in Capiz throughout their lives also have never heard of the features found in the two studies I mentioned. The "Capiznon" used by those respondents as far as impressions on lexical features are concerned thus seem to point at the possibility of it being a Hiligaynon dialect with marginal West Bisayan influences. Yet again the discussion on Capiznon is faced with problems with what it is in the first place.

As for your question on passive intelligibility, I looked into this during the many fieldworks I've conducted, and it is true that they generally do not respond in the ARV variety, but there are other instances that they try to approximate their speech to ARV to avoid breakdowns.

I would prefer that you cite my 2018 presentation as:
Rentillo, Philip. 2018, March. Preliminary dialectology of Aklanon. Paper presented at the 2018 Linguistic Society of the Philippines - National Conference and General Meeting, Balanga, Philippines.

In case you would find our 2019 presentation more relevant:

Rentillo, Philip, & Zubiri, Louward Allen. 2019, May. Visualization and interconnection: The case of Aklanon. Paper presented at the 29th Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, Tokyo.

Below are the visualizations from our 2019 presentation:

Similarity matrix

Network graph

Comparative dendrogram (lexical)

Comparative dendrogram (phonetic data)

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 9:25 PM R David Zorc <dzorc1@comcast.net> wrote: