Several approaches to Chinese dialect identification based on segmental and prosodic features of speech are described in this paper. When using segmental information only, the system performs phonotactic analysis after speech utterances have been tokenized into sequences of broad phonetic classes. The second scheme comprises prosodic models which are trained to capture tone sequence information...

After carrying out field work on the Slavic dialects spoken in Greece, and more specifically in the village of Liti, I suggested the name Nashta “ours” for the dialect so as to respect the usage among the speakers and to emphasize the specific representation they have of their language. Of the Nashta syntactic features, I shall focus this work on the jimam perfect construction with the past pas...

Japanese dialects spoken in the Kinki and Shikoku regions have a lexical contrast of pitch register types called shiki. The shallow f0 downtrend in the high-pitched shiki type is thought of as a manifestation of backdrop f0 declination that is blind to tonal structure. Acoustic analysis of three Japanese dialects with 2or 3-way contrast of shiki types, however, reveals that the degree of f0 dec...

The ability to discern the use of a nonstandard dialect is often enough information to also determine the speaker’s ethnicity, and speakers may consequently suffer discrimination based on their speech. This article, detailing four experiments, shows that housing discrimination based solely on telephone conversations occurs, dialect identification is possible using the word hello, and phonetic c...

In this study, we tackle the question of pos-tagging written Occitan, a lesser-resourced language with multiple dialects each containing several varieties. For pos-tagging, we use a supervised machine learning approach, requiring annotated training and evaluation corpora and optionally a lexicon, all of which were prepared as part of the study. Although we evaluate two dialects of Occitan, Leng...

In daily communications, Arabs use local dialects which are hard to identify automatically using conventional classification methods. The dialect identification challenging task becomes more complicated when dealing with an under-resourced dialects belonging to a same county/region. In this paper, we start by analyzing statistically Algerian dialects in order to capture their specificities rela...

The dialect landscape of England has changed substantially over the course of the past century. There has been such considerable and ongoing dialect attrition that the language use reported across the country by Ellis’ survey of 1889 seems, in many cases and in many places, quite distinct from that spoken just over one hundred years later. Later in this article, I survey some of the recent evid...

The chronicle is devoted to the conference “XXXIX All-Russian Dialectological Meeting «Lexical Atlas of Russian Folk Dialects – 2023»” which annually takes place in Saint Petersburg and this time was held on January 30–31, 2023. questions dialect lexicology, lexicography linguistic geography were mainly discussed. These disciplines are concerned with “Lexical Dialects” compiling has been done b...

The size of the structured query language (SQL) continuously increases. Extensions of SQL for special domains like stream processing or sensor networks come with own extensions, more or less unrelated to the standard. In general, underlying DBMS support only a subset of SQL plus vendor specific extensions. In this paper, we analyze application domains where special SQL dialects are needed or ar...

The aim of this study is to demonstrate that rhythm variation across Arabic dialects is to a great extent correlated with the different types of syllabic structure observed in these dialects, especially with regard to the relative complexity of onsets and codas. The main focus is on the relationship between syllabic structures on the one hand, and rhythm classes based on segmental duration on t...