The influence of standard Italian on the minor Romance languages spoken in Italy (i.e. the Italian dialects) permeates all aspects of their grammar. In this article, I provide an example of the way in which Italian prosody can affect dialects, a poorly studied type of influence. I show that a speaker may have a range of options available when speaking ‘dialect,’ including forms that are influen...

This paper describes the process of semi-automatically converting dictionaries from paper to structured text (database) and the integration of these into the CLARIN infrastructure in order to make the dictionaries accessible and retrievable for the research community. The case study at hand is that of the curation of 42 fascicles of the Dictionaries of the Brabantic and Limburgian dialects, and...

This study examines declarative sentence intonation contours in 8 vastly different Swiss German dialects by the application of the Command-Response model. Fundamental frequency patterns of a controlled declarative sentence are analyzed on the global and local level of intonation. The results provide evidence of a different patterning for the dialects in the context of how global and local level...

We present MAGEAD, a morphological analyzer and generator for the Arabic language family. Our work is novel in that it explicitly addresses the need for processing the morphology of the dialects. MAGEAD performs an on-line analysis to or generation from a root+pattern+features representation, it has separate phonological and orthographic representations, and it allows for combining morphemes fr...

In this paper we present the results obtained when evaluating the Natural Numbers Recognizer of Telefónica I+D over some particular dialects of Spanish from Spain and America. The evaluation was made over two different data sets corresponding to two different situations. A first set includes dialects of Spanish from Spain, that were considered in the training and design of our baseline system, ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The current study explored the roles of dialect familiarityand social stereotypes in dialect interference effects in a speeded lexical classification task. METHODS Listeners classified the words bad and bed or had and head produced by local Midland and non-local Northern talkers and the words sod and side or rod and ride produced by non-local, non-stereotyped Northern and nonl...

Speech rhythm is highly variable. Previous studies reported variability between languages, dialects, speakers, and labelers. Research further revealed an effect of sentence in the rhythmic characteristics of speakers of the same language. In the present study we tested whether the effect of sentence material is constant across varieties of the same language. We addressed this question by an exa...