This study of syllable-final /s/ reduction in a 55-speaker corpus Spanish Juchitán, México, contact variety, uses both language and social processes to explain its results. Contact with the indigenous Isthmus Zapotec leads decreased rates retention, creating locally salient n+1-order index between “Zapotecness” that influences indexical field for reduction. identity is associated tradition femi...

The present paper presents the experience gained at LDC in the collection and transcription of a corpus of conversational telephone speech in dialectal Arabic. The paper will cover the following: (a) Arabic language background; (b) objectives, principles, and methodological choices of dialectal Arabic transcription, (c) conceptualization and design features of LDC’s ‘Arabic Multi-Dialectal Tran...

In Arvaniti and Joseph (2000) we studied the variability in the pronunciation of the Greek phones spelled mp, nt, gg/gk, which in speech are said to consist of a nasal consonant, e.g., m, and a “voiced” stop consonant, e.g., b. Our data showed that the presence of the nasal depended largely on age, with younger speakers producing many more nasalless instances of these phones than older speakers...

MAGEAD is a morphological analyzer and generator for the Arabic language family, by which we mean both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and the spoken dialects. MAGEAD explicitly addresses the need for processing the morphology of the dialects as well. Furthermore, MAGEAD can model both phonology and orthography explicitly. In this paper, we present in detail the morphophonemic and the orthographic...