Languages spoken by immigrants change due to contact with the local languages. Capturing these changes is problematic for current language technologies, which are typically developed for speakers of the standard dialect only. Even when dialectal variants are available for such technologies, we still need to predict which dialect is being used. In this study, we distinguish between the immigrant...

Research on the neuronal underpinnings of speaker identity recognition has identified voice-selective areas in the human brain with evolutionary homologues in non-human primates who have comparable areas for processing species-specific calls. Most studies have focused on estimating the extent and location of these areas. In contrast, relatively few experiments have investigated the time-course ...

In the dialect contact framework proposed by Trudgill (1986), relatively little research has investigated the consequences of the mixing of different grammatical systems of English. The apparent time survey of the Fenland dialect of Eastern England reported here provides an example of a range of dialect contact processes reconfiguring variable patterns of past tense BE, resulting in a variety w...

This study examines whether Bedouins in Najd are converging on the sedentary dialect due to social attitudes towards these two dialects. It is hypothesized that will be positive, as opposed those of bedouin dialect. The dialects measured using indirect approach, via verbal-guise test. In this test, implicit individuals a language/dialect measured. Participants presented with stimuli (short spee...

The STAM project addresses the problem of automatic transcription of SMS language and especially the translation of messages written in Arabic dialect. The objective of STAM system is to automatically translate texts written in SMS language in a dialect spoken in the Arab World (source language) into a French text (target language), interpretable and understandable. Mots-clés : Dialecte, SMS, T...

We discuss the notion of language and dialect-specific search in the context of audio indexing. A system is described where users can find dialect or language-specific pronunciations of Afghan placenames in Dari and Pashto. We explore the efficacy of a phonetic speech recognition system employed in this task.

Since there are only a few resources for Swiss German dialects, we compiled a corpus of 115,000 tokens, manually annotated with PoStags. The goal is to provide a basic data set for developing NLP applications for Swiss German. We extended the original corpus and improved its annotation consistency. Furthermore, we trained dialect-specific PoS-tagging models and implemented a baseline system for...

We present new language resources for Moroccan and Sanaani Yemeni Arabic. The resources include corpora for each dialect which have been morphologically annotated, and morphological analyzers for each dialect which are derived from these corpora. These are the first sets of resources for Moroccan and Yemeni Arabic. The resources will be made available to the public.

This research investigates about phonetic differences between Rantau Keloyang Dialect and Sungai Beringin Dialect. The purpose of the are (1) to know in term vowel, consonant Diphthong (2) identify phoneme Data gained through eliciting, participating note taking technique. analyzed based on theories proposed by Crowley (1987). result this show that both dialects occurred due phonemic change, di...