Remaining Musics: Lithuanian Karaimes

Lithuanian-Latvian-Lithuanian Parallel Corpus

The goal of the paper is to present different problems related to the building of Parallel Corpus for two small languages, namely, Latvian and Lithuanian. The Lithuanian-Latvian-Lithuania Parallel Corpus (LILA) will contain 8 million running words; will be bidirectional, aligned on the sentence level. The problems include identifying, acquiring, preparing, and aligning parallel texts.

Lithuanian Institute of Agriculture

Monosyllabic Circumflexion in Lithuanian

This PhD thesis examines a phenomenon known as Monosyllabic Circumflexion (MC, hereafter) from a historical linguistics / phonological point of view. MC denotes a Lithuanian or Balto-Slavic phenomenon according to which long vowels and diphthongs in monosyllabic words exhibit a circumflex tone instead of the expected acute tone. It is observed in the following four categories: I. 3rd person fut...

Lithuanian Speech Database LTDIGITS

The Lithuanian speech database LTDIGITS was developed. Some details of this database could be of more general interest. These features are related with collected set of nasal consonant realizations in different vowel contexts. First, LTDIGITS contains nasal – vowel syllables where nasal is before open, middle and closed vowels. Second, the database includes special continuous phrase with above ...

Network Musics - Play , Engagement and the Democratization of Performance

The rapid development of network communication technologies has allowed composers to create new ways in which to directly engage participants in the exploration of new musical environments. A number of distinctive aesthetic approaches to the musical application of networks will be outlined in this paper each of which is mediated and conditioned by the technical and aesthetic foundations of the ...