Phonological Adaptation and Morphosyntactic Integration in Igbo-English Insertional Codeswitching

Masking Release for Igbo and English.

In this research, we explored the effect of noise interruption rate on speech intelligibility. Specifically, we used the Hearing In Noise Test (HINT) procedure with the original HINT stimuli (English) and Igbo stimuli to assess speech reception ability in interrupted noise. For a given noise level, the HINT test provides an estimate of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) required for 50%-correct sp...

Do Cajuns Speak Southern English? Morphosyntactic Evidence

Loanword Adaptation and Phonological Theory

This paper examines English-based loanwords in Standard Mandarin in light of various proposals on how loanwords are adapted and processed, and discusses the implications of the findings in loanword adaptation for phonological theory. There have been three major approaches to the adaptation and processing of sound-based loanwords: the Perception Approach, the Phonology Approach, and the Percepti...

Corpus-based Dialectometry: Aggregate Morphosyntactic Variability in British English Dialects

The research reported in this paper departs from most previous work in dialectometry in several ways. Empirically, it draws on frequency vectors derived from naturalistic corpus data and not on discrete atlas classifications. Linguistically, it is concerned with morphosyntactic (as opposed to lexical or pronunciational) variability. Methodologically, it marries the careful analysis of dialect p...

The Howard University System Submission for the Shared Task in Language Identification in Spanish-English Codeswitching

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...