Some dialect characteristics in selected local Slovenian dialect texts of the Littoral and Lower Carniolan dialect groups

Mapping Dialect Characteristics to Dialect Speakers

Traditional dialect maps based on data from carefully selected informants, usually give clear-cut dialect borders, isoglosses, with one dialect characteristic present on one side of the isogloss and absent on the other. We have compared results from traditional dialect research with results from a thorough auditory analysis of /r/ and /l/ pronunciation among the 1015 informants in the Norwegian...

the verbal constructions in azari (harzani dialect)

most of the verbal constructions of harzani dialect have got inflectional affixes. the majority of the constructions are made up vy adding a specific verbal affix to the verbal stem (infinitive without infinitive marker). only a few number of them is formed by adding a verbal affix to the past participle of the verb. there are specific rules for the formation of different verbal types. there is...

Dialect loss and dialect vitality in Flanders

Dialect loss is a relatively new but by now quite general phenomenon in Flanders (i.e., Dutch-speaking Belgium). Although the processes of dialect change and dialect loss have proceeded with great regional di¤erences in speed and intensity in the past decades, there is a general tendency toward replacing primary dialect features of a relatively local scope by secondary dialect features that hav...

Diacritics restoration for Arabic dialect texts

Vocalization, diactritization or diacritics restoration is one of the major challenges in Arabic natural language processing. Algiers dialect is also concerned by this issue. In this paper, we present an automatic diacritization system for standard and dialect Arabic texts based on statistical approach. The idea is to use available tools in statistical machine translation to build such a system...

Dialect Contact and Dialect Change: The Effect of Near-Mergers