This study aims at exploring demonstratives in two dialects: Hodeidi Yemeni Arabic and Taizi Arabic, comparing them to Modern Standard Arabic. The description of the dialects along with focused on tracing syntactic semantic evidence they are like exhibit. model used undertake analysis follows Diessel (1999). Although attracted considerable scholarly attention, literature reflects a scarcity res...

the aim of the present paper is to study the status of the short vowels /i/ and /u/ in five selected iranian balochi dialects. these dialects are spoken in sistan (si), saravan (sa), khash (kh), iranshahr (ir), and chabahar (ch) regions located in province sistan va baluchestan in the southeast of iran. this study investigates whether these two vowels have the same qualities as the short /i/ an...

this paper is an attempt to shed light on the effects of modernization, urbanization, monolingual educational system, and mass media as well as the process of globalization on dialect leveling among persian dialects. in so doing, the first part of the paper elaborates on the relationship between globalization and sociolinguistics, and on the concept of standardization. also, it discusses some ...

kurmanji is probably the most well known variety of kurdish language. apart from such countries as turkey, iraq, syria, and some areas in western iran, it is spoken in khorasan-e shomali and khorasan-e razavi provinces in north-east iran. the residents of biglar –a village near quchan in north-west khorasan-e razavi province- as well as many other people living in the neighboring villages speak...

The study presents an acoustic analysis of 15 stressed short and long vowels of Dagbani with detailed formant frequency and duration characteristics of the vowels produced in the open monosyllabic (CV) phonetic context by 15 male and 15 female speakers of Nanuni, Nayahili, and Tomosili dialects of Dagbani. The aim of the study was to provide an acoustic evidence of vowel quality in Dagbani thro...

A comparison of the contour alignment of nuclear and initial prenuclear accents was carried out for the Irish dialects of Gaoth Dobhair in Ulster (GD-U) and Cois Fharraige in Connaught (CF-C). This was done across conditions where the number of unstressed syllables following the nuclear and preceding the initial prenuclear accents was varied from 2-0. This tests a variable peak hypothesis promp...

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...

this article examines the number of arabic dialects, reminding their majority in a comparative and a practical way. then comes the words of ibn jinni in unusualness and usualness in the language and its four types and represents them as stated in ibn jinni’s books and specially their characteristics. also shows that the purpose of reading the unusualness does not mean they are in unusual dialec...

Electropalatographic and acoustic data reported in this study show differences in closure location and degree, dorsopalatal contact size, closure duration, relative timing of events and formant frequency between clear /l/ and dark /l/ in two dialects of Catalan (Valencian and Majorcan). The two Catalan dialects under investigation differ also regarding degree of darkness but essentially not reg...

In some languages, such as Korean and Japanese, some theoretically interesting postlexical tonal phenomena have been observed. The phenomena include, for example, downstep and edge tones in Tokyo Japanese (e.g. Kawakami 1961b, Pierrehumbert and Beckman 1988) and downstep and upstep in Northern Gyeongsang Korean (Kenstowicz and Sohn 1997, Jun et al. 2006). Also, some phenomena have shown the int...