Viewing dialect change through acceptability judgments: A case study in Shetland dialect

Dialect Contact and Dialect Change: The Effect of Near-Mergers

Collecting Arabic Dialect Variations using Games With A Purpose: A Case Study Targeting the Egyptian Dialect

Arabs throughout the Arab world speak different dialects of Arabic in their daily conversations. We envision collecting a data set that maps different Arabic variations and dialects to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). These mappings can be then used to facilitate the communication among Arabs from different regions. In this work, we developed a Game With A Purpose (GWAP) to collect mappings betwee...

A Study of Inflectional Categories of Noun in Sistani Dialect

The present article aims to provide a synchronic study of the inflectional or morpho-syntactic categories of noun in Sistani dialect. These categories comprise person, number, gender or noun class, definiteness, case, and possession. Linguistic data was collected via recording free speech, and interviewing with 30 (15 females, 15 males) illiterate Sistani language consultants of age 40–102 year...

Refusal Speech Act Realization in Sarawani Balochi Dialect: A Case Study of Male University Students

Following Beebe, Takahashi, and Uliss-Weltz’s (1990) classification, this study examines the relationship between power and gender of the addressees and the type and number of refusal strategies employed by Sarawani Baloch male university students (SBMUS). Fifty SBMUS studying in Azad University of Sarawan were randomly chosen as the participants of the study. Data collection was accomplished t...

Crowdsourcing Dialect Characterization through Twitter

We perform a large-scale analysis of language diatopic variation using geotagged microblogging datasets. By collecting all Twitter messages written in Spanish over more than two years, we build a corpus from which a carefully selected list of concepts allows us to characterize Spanish varieties on a global scale. A cluster analysis proves the existence of well defined macroregions sharing commo...