22 Moving from a traditional dialect geography research methodology to one in which data are processed 23 electronically and where visualization is used as a research tool can be of great benefit to dialect geography. 24 A working environment offering full support for using visualization as a research tool could take dialect 25 geography into the era of eScience. Despite the advent of electroni...

The present paper conducts two experiments on the nasal coda performance in Hohhot dialect from a prosodic point of view. In the production experiment, acoustic characteristics of nasal codas in Hohhot dialect are shown in comparison with that in Mandarin Chinese in the dimensions of duration, fundamental frequency and intensity, which reveal that Hohhot dialect speakers cannot produce the nasa...

This paper describes a method for selecting an appropriate phone set in dialect speech synthesis for a so far undescribed dialect by applying hidden Markov model (HMM) based training and clustering methods. In this pilot study we show how a phone set derived from the phonetic surface can be optimized given a small amount of dialect speech training data.

The present study was performed to assess the infection of rodent reservoirs and their fleas to plaque agent (Yersinia pestis) in Kurdistan and North Khorasan respectively as active endemic and inactive nonendemic foci in the country. Live traps were used to collect rodents in spring and summer 2015. Totally, 109 rodents were trapped. Rodents of genus Apodemus witherbyi (40.5%) were the most ab...

On the connection of Kırcali (Gırcalı) sub-dialect with dialect Western Anatolia -based on data present tense suffix Meninski- Adamovic firstly drew attention. According to available data, Western-Anatolian region is not far from dialects middle Deliorman Region. As an example, we can show Edirne-Dağlı dialect, which located at East-Rumelia region. For example: {-(I)vAr(I)} shown as suffix. In ...

The current study examined the role of native language on the perceptual similarity space of regional dialect variation. Native and non-native speakers of American English were asked to group a set of talkers by regional dialect in a free classification task. The two listener groups exhibited similar dialect classification strategies and perceptual similarity structures. However, the non-native...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the viability of synthesizing Masan dialect with Seoul dialect and to examine the role of prosody in the authentication of the synthesized Masan dialect. The synthesis was performed by transferring one or more of the prosodic features of the Masan utterance unto the Seoul utterance. The hypothesis is that, given an utterance composed of the phonemes share...

We present the second ever evaluated Arabic dialect-to-dialect machine translation effort, and the first to leverage external resources beyond a small parallel corpus. The subject has not previously received serious attention due to lack of naturally occurring parallel data; yet its importance is evidenced by dialectal Arabic’s wide usage and breadth of inter-dialect variation, comparable to th...

In an earlier study, we proposed a very effective dialect/accent classification algorithm, which is named Word based Dialect Classification (WDC). The WDC works well for large size corpora and significantly outperforms traditional Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) based systems, which is claimed to be the best performing system for language identification. For a small train...