Linguistic research on multilingual societies has indicated that there is usually a preferred language for expression of emotion and sentiment (Dewaele, 2010). Paucity of data has limited such studies to participant interviews and speech transcriptions from small groups of speakers. In this paper, we report a study on 430,000 unique tweets from Indian users, specifically Hindi-English bilingual...

Based on the previous research and practice, the present paper conducts an investigation in three Chinese universities to find out the general situation of the switching to Chinese and attempts to test the positive role of the use of Chinese in the EFL classroom of Chinese universities. This case study focuses on revealing the attitudes of teachers and students towards the patterns, functions, ...

This work presents an approach to recognition of multispeaker conversational speech with code-switching between Ukrainian and Russian languages. Both inter-sentential and intra-sentential code-switching is handled. The approach takes into account peculiarities of phonetic systems of the closely related Russian and Ukrainian languages. A crosslingual LVCSR system is developed. The acoustic model...

While language identification works well on standard texts, it performs much worse on social media language, in particular dialectal language—even for English. First, to support work on English language identification, we contribute a new dataset of tweets annotated for English versus nonEnglish, with attention to ambiguity, codeswitching, and automatic generation issues. It is randomly sampled...

Churchill Raw event facilitates creative self-expression of young comedians through the incorporation a variety sex-related taboo topics. Yet, multicultural nature participants in Nairobi-based makes communication such topics particularly problematic, as they can also be deemed offensive. Drawing on theoretical and methodological principles from Interactional Sociolinguistics (Gumperz, 2003), t...

This study aimed to explore the code-switching in online English Language Learning (ELL) Camarines Sur Polytechnic Colleges. The researchers formulated two main questions this study: (1) What types of are used by students Online (ELL)? (2) effects on language learning an ELL setting? To answer research questions, utilized a qualitative design. observed and recorded Zoom classes five sections Ba...

This paper describes the Howard University system for the language identification shared task of the Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Code Switching. Our system is based on prior work on SwahiliEnglish token-level language identification. Our system primarily uses character n-gram, prefix and suffix features, letter case and special character features along with previously existin...