Suburbanization and language change in Basque

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Book Review: Innovation and Change in English Language Education

  It is widely accepted that today’s technological world is moving in a much more speed than the past, which requires the skill of keeping up with the pace of change. This change and innovation is a must for all organizations. According to Shen (2008, p. 73), this change is trickier in the educational context, where "the nature of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of those i...

Tools and Basque Language Databases Developed in the Aholab Laboratory

This paper gives an overview of the speech material used and generated in our laboratory (AhoLab), as well as of the software tools developed for its management. The databases were created in the context of the development of a text to speech converter for Basque, in the different fields of research. The software here described is freely available and is currently being used by some educational...

Cues of Change in the Wh-parameter: Evidence from Basque

Using Finite State Technology in Natural Language Processing of Basque

This paper describes the components used in the design and implementation of NLP tools for Basque. These components are based on finite state technology and are devoted to the morphological analysis of Basque, an agglutinative pre-Indo-European language. We think that our design can be interesting for the treatment of other languages. The main components developed are a general and robust morph...