«dialect leveling»

Relexification and dialect levelling in the genesis of creoles: the case of the Arabic-based creole, Nubi

Running head: Dialect awareness and lexical comprehension of MAE Dialect Awareness and Lexical Comprehension of Mainstream American English in African American English-Speaking Children

Purpose: This study was designed to examine the relationships among minority dialect use, language ability, and young AAE-speaking children’s understanding and awareness of MAE. Methods: 83 4to 8-year-old African American English-speaking children participated in two experimental

Dialectal Arabic Telephone Speech Corpus: Principles, Tool design, and Transcription Conventions

The present paper presents the experience gained at LDC in the collection and transcription of a corpus of conversational telephone speech in dialectal Arabic. The paper will cover the following: (a) Arabic language background; (b) objectives, principles, and methodological choic

Morphophonemic and orthographic rules in a multi- dialectal morphological analyzer and generator for Arabic verbs

MAGEAD is a morphological analyzer and generator for the Arabic language family, by which we mean both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and the spoken dialects. MAGEAD explicitly addresses the need for processing the morphology of the dialects as well. Furthermore, MAGEAD can model b

Negative Dialectics Translations

ion, the logical hierarchy of the stages of universality, and indeed also there, where the relationships of domination are caused to mask themselves behind democratic procedures. The Juridical Sphere 303-305 Following the Phenomenology and the Logic, Hegel drove the cult of the c

Specification and Automatic Prototype Implementation of Polymorphic Objects in TURING Using the TXL Dialect Processor

Object-oriented dialects of existing programming languages are often implemented using a preprocessor that translates from the dialect to an equivalent program in the original programming language. Unfortunately, the nature of the preprocessing done by these implementations is hi

Perception of dialect variation in noise: intelligibility and classification.

Listeners can explicitly categorize unfamiliar talkers by regional dialect with above-chance performance under ideal listening conditions. However, the extent to which this important source of variation affects speech processing is largely unknown. In a series of four experiments

Dialects in western Europe: a balanced picture of language death, innovation, and change*

This thematic issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language addresses the question of whether dialects in western Europe are dying. Can dialects still be a medium of communication in our industrialized and increasingly urbanized societies? Is there a place for d

Effect of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy with Individual Skill Training to Reduce Aggression Behavior among ADHD Children

Introduction: ADHD is a neuro-developmental disorder defined by impairing levels of inattention, disorganization, and hyperactivity – impulsivity. ADHD is more frequently affected in males than females in general populations. The child will have difficulties staying on one task,

Pittsburghese shirts: Commodification and the enregisterment of an urban dialect

This article considers a type of material artifact that circulates ideas about regional speech in the United States: T-shirts bearing words and phrases thought to be unique to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I argue that Pittsburghese shirts, seen for themselves and in the context of t