Naming as an inseparable sign of a country’s language has attracted the attention of many linguists to formulate and test hypotheses regarding the culture and language of the people of a certain area. Iran appears like a proper destination for conducting a research focusing on naming based on several factors such as geography or chronology. The present article aims to take a specific look at th...

We present a novel approach for (written) dialect identification based on the discriminative potential of entire words. We generate Swiss German dialect words from a Standard German lexicon with the help of hand-crafted phonetic/graphemic rules that are associated with occurrence maps extracted from a linguistic atlas created through extensive empirical fieldwork. In comparison with a character...

We consider the mid-term production planning problem in make-to-order production, which consists in scheduling production orders so that the variability in the resource utilization over time is minimized. The problem is modeled as a resource leveling project scheduling problem, where production orders for final products and main components correspond to activities of a project. We present a ne...

The moving process of a leveling and erecting mechanism is complicated, which involves six hydraulic cylinders. The research established mathematical model and optimized the moving process of the leveling and erecting mechanism. Kinematic analysis of the mechanism was accomplished. Mathematical model of the hydraulic system was established. Working scheme was designed consisting of workflow, tr...

A linear analysis, employing the lubrication approximation, is presented for the leveling history of a thin layer of Newtonian liquid. When the surface tension is taken to be constant, the classic result of Orchard is reproduced. As expected, the presence of surfactant, with resulting surface-tension-gradient forces, slows the rate of leveling of an initial train of periodic ripples. For very w...

We present results on the leveling of polymer microdroplets on thin films prepared from the same material. In particular, we explore the crossover from a droplet spreading on an infinitesimally thin film (Tanner's law regime) to that of a droplet leveling on a film thicker than the droplet itself. In both regimes, the droplet's excess surface area decreases towards the equilibrium configuration...

The developmental properties of vowel devoicing were investigated for 72 children of 4 and 5 years of age, and 37 adults in two dialects of Japanese. One was the Osaka dialect, with a low devoicing rate, and the other the Tokyo dialect, with a high devoicing rate. In the Tokyo dialect, the devoicing rate of children significantly increased and reached an adult-like level by the age of 5 years, ...

An HMM-based speech synthesis framework is applied to both Standard Austrian German and a Viennese dialectal variety and several training strategies for multi-dialect modeling such as dialect clustering and dialect-adaptive training are investigated. For bridging the gap between processing on the level of HMMs and on the linguistic level, we add phonological transformations to the HMM interpola...

The present study introduces articulography, the measurement of the position of tongue and lips during speech, as a promising method to the study of dialect variation. By using generalized additive modeling to analyze articulatory trajectories, we are able to reliably detect aggregate group differences, while simultaneously taking into account the individual variation across dozens of speakers....

due to the close proximity of mazanadaran and russia there have always been considerable language contacts between the two regions. for example , in mazandarani dialect there have been numerous loanwords borrowed from russian language , while they are not in use in standard persian or its other dialects . this paper will examine these type of loanwords . they are occasionally imported with a di...