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...

This research applies dialectometric methods to purely syntactic dialect data. It will be shown that there is geographic cohesion in syntactic variation when viewed in the aggregate. The amount of syntactic variation which can be accounted for by geography will be determined. Dialectometric techniques will be used to develop an additive measure of syntactic differences. Multidimensional scaling...

The present study explores the phonetic implementation of accentual H(igh) tone of the Akita dialect of Japanese, specifically its timing control. Lexical accent in the dialect is implemented as an eminence in F0. The conspicuous feature is that F0 does not fall sharply as in Tokyo Japanese. Two hypotheses are examined concerning the extent of the duration of the pitch summit. One is that the H...

In dialectometry several approaches exist to automatically generate dialect maps on the basis of calculated dissimilarities between locations (using survey data). Examples for Dutch are Heeringa (2004), who calculates dialect maps on the basis of aggregated phonetic dissimilarities, and Spruit (2008), who calculates dialect maps on the basis of aggregated syntactic dissimilarities. In both exam...