22 Moving from a traditional dialect geography research methodology to one in which data are processed 23 electronically and where visualization is used as a research tool can be of great benefit to dialect geography. 24 A working environment offering full support for using visualization as a research tool could take dialect 25 geography into the era of eScience. Despite the advent of electroni...

The present paper conducts two experiments on the nasal coda performance in Hohhot dialect from a prosodic point of view. In the production experiment, acoustic characteristics of nasal codas in Hohhot dialect are shown in comparison with that in Mandarin Chinese in the dimensions of duration, fundamental frequency and intensity, which reveal that Hohhot dialect speakers cannot produce the nasa...

This paper describes a method for selecting an appropriate phone set in dialect speech synthesis for a so far undescribed dialect by applying hidden Markov model (HMM) based training and clustering methods. In this pilot study we show how a phone set derived from the phonetic surface can be optimized given a small amount of dialect speech training data.

OBJECTIVE To investigate trends in obesity prevalence in recent years and to predict the obesity prevalence in 2015 in European populations. METHODS Data of 97,942 participants from seven cohorts involved in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study participating in the Diogenes project (named as "Diogenes cohort" in the following) with weight measurements ...

The spatial variability and distributions of soil physical and biological properties, and the relationships between them, are not well-characterized in agroecosystems that have been land-leveled. The objectives of this study were to characterize the short-term impacts of land leveling on the magnitudes, spatial variability, and spatial distributions of soil physical and biological properties in...

On the connection of Kırcali (Gırcalı) sub-dialect with dialect Western Anatolia -based on data present tense suffix Meninski- Adamovic firstly drew attention. According to available data, Western-Anatolian region is not far from dialects middle Deliorman Region. As an example, we can show Edirne-Dağlı dialect, which located at East-Rumelia region. For example: {-(I)vAr(I)} shown as suffix. In ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of tibial plateau leveling on joint motion in canine stifle joints in which the cranial cruciate ligament (CCL) had been severed. STUDY DESIGN In vitro cadaver study. ANIMALS Six canine cadaver hind legs. METHODS Radiographs of the stifle joints were made to evaluate the tibial plateau angle with respect to the long axis of the tibia. The specimens were mo...

The current study examined the role of native language on the perceptual similarity space of regional dialect variation. Native and non-native speakers of American English were asked to group a set of talkers by regional dialect in a free classification task. The two listener groups exhibited similar dialect classification strategies and perceptual similarity structures. However, the non-native...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the viability of synthesizing Masan dialect with Seoul dialect and to examine the role of prosody in the authentication of the synthesized Masan dialect. The synthesis was performed by transferring one or more of the prosodic features of the Masan utterance unto the Seoul utterance. The hypothesis is that, given an utterance composed of the phonemes share...