Dialect variations of a language have a severe impact on the performance of speech systems. Therefore, knowing how close or separate dialects are in a given language space provides useful information to predict, or improve, system performance when there is a mismatch between train and test data. Distance measures have been used in several applications of speech processing, including speech reco...

In this paper we address the problem of the analysis of multi-dialect Arabic morphology. Our method involves based on the synthesis of two methods. The first method is linguistic based, using an adopted Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) Morphology Analyser to first deal with dialect prefixes and suffixes and then analyse the words. This method improves accuracy of dialect words by 69%. The second me...

This paper investigates the tonal pattern of mono-syllabic and the tone sandhi pattern of disyllable of Linyi dialect through the method of experimental phonetics. Previous studies provided the five-scale value of four citation tones and some of the features of tone sandhi of Linyi dialect. Further experimental data is needed to confirm these results, and to verify the tone sandhi patterns. Fir...

Data acquisition in dialectology is typically a tedious task, as dialect samples of spoken language have to be collected via questionnaires or interviews. In this article, we suggest to use the “web as a corpus” approach for dialectology. We present a case study that demonstrates how authentic language data for the Bavarian dialect (ISO 639-3:bar) can be collected automatically from the social ...

While Modern Standard Arabic is the formal spoken and written language of the Arab world; dialects are the major communication mode for everyday life. Therefore, identifying a speaker’s dialect is critical in the Arabic-speaking world for speech processing tasks, such as automatic speech recognition or identification. In this paper, we examine two approaches that reduce the Universal Background...

kurdish language is one of the iranian languages and the historical study of the phonetic system of khorasan kormanji dialect, can clearly show that this language has been under the influence of iranian languages, especially persian language. the author of the article has used prof. tsablof’s (the most famous russian orientalist) publications, to show the persian language influence on khorasan ...

-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...