-The responsiveness of female White-crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys nuttalli) to male songs in their natal dialect (Clear) or in an alien dialect (Buzzy) was evaluated by measuring string-gathering and papershredding in a laboratory experiment. Females hearing Clear dialect songs gathered more strings than did females hearing Buzzy dialect songs. More females hearing Buzzy songs shredd...

sarhaddi balochi dialect, a language variety of western (rakhshani) balochi, employs derivation through affixation as one of its word formation processes. the purpose of this article is to present a synchronic description of the way(s) different derivational affixes function in making complex words in sarhaddi balochi as spoken in granchin[1] district located about 35kms to the southeast of kha...

This paper takes the dialect words in as corpus, selects disyllabic starting point, and uses quantitative qualitative methods to summarize analyze combined dialect.

We aim to develop a Speech-to-Speech translation system between Modern Standard Arabic and Algiers dialect. Such a system must include a Text-to-Speech module which itself must include a Grapheme-to-Phoneme converter. Algiers dialect is an Arabic dialect concerned by the most problems of Modern Standard Arabic in NLP area. Furthermore, it could be considered as an under-resourced language becau...

Based on the definition of the relative clause from Song (2001), this paper examines the relative clause in the Hui’an dialect from four parameters: (a) the relativization marker used; (b) the position of the head noun relative to the restricting clause; (c) the role and encoding of the head noun in the restricting clause; and (d) the role and encoding of the head noun in the main clause. The H...

The resolution of combinatorial problems typically requires the articulation of tools that range from modeling languages to dedicated solvers, including processing input data sets and visualizing results. This work concerns the improvement of the software development environment for a research project using a custom-designed XML dialect. NestingXML has been designed to capture one kind of combi...

Perceptual and acoustic research on dialect variation in the United States requires an appropriate corpus of spoken language materials. Existing speech corpora that include dialect variation are limited by poor recording quality, small numbers of talkers, and/or small samples of speech from each talker. The Nationwide Speech Project corpus was designed to contain a large amount of speech produc...

Arabic dialect classification has been an important and challenging problem for Arabic language processing, especially for social media text analysis and machine translation. In this paper we propose an approach to improving Arabic dialect classification with semi-supervised learning: multiple classifiers are trained with weakly supervised, strongly supervised, and unsupervised data. Their comb...