This paper describes a pilot study in lexical encoding of multi-word expressions (MWEs) in 4 Latin American dialects of Spanish: Costa Rican, Colombian, Mexican and Peruvian. We describe the variability of MWE usage across dialects. We adapt an existing data model to a dialect-aware encoding, so as to represent dialect-related specificities, while avoiding redundancy of the data common for all ...

The sociolinguistic situation in Arabic countries is characterized by diglossia (Ferguson, 1959) : whereas one variant Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is highly codified and mainly used for written communication, other variants coexist in regular everyday’s situations (dialects). Similarly, while a number of resources and tools exist for MSA (lexica, annotated corpora, taggers, parsers . . . ), ve...

Dialectal variations provide vital cues to both synchronic and diachronic changes in sounds of a language. There has been no comparative phonological study of the dialects of Hindi in the last several decades. In this paper, we present a phonological description of seven of the major dialects of Hindi, namely, Awadhi, Bagheli, Bhojpuri, Bundeli, Haryanvi, Kanauji and Khari Boli, based on the ob...

This paper examines the manifestation of downstep and intonation in the Tokyo and Kochi dialects of Japanese by using three types of syntactically balanced material adjective phrases, adverbial phrases, and sentence modifiers. The main conclusion is that Kochi speakers produce a smaller Major Phrase consisting of fewer lexical accents than in the Tokyo dialect, the Major Phrase being defined as...

The present article presents a study of the raising of overlong mid vowels in Estonian dialects. Long mid vowels of South Estonian dialects (Mulgi, Tartu and Võru) have split into full-long mid vowels (Q2) and into overlong raised mid vowels (Q3). Raising of mid vowels also characterises West Estonian dialects. The formant values of raised mid vowels of Võru and Mulgi show that they are much hi...

This paper reports the successful completion of Japanese POLYPHONE project, Voice Across Japan (VAJ) data collection project. The database has the following characteristic, 1) large speakers database (8,866 spk.) through telephone line, 2) to gather participant's personal information such as gender, age, growing place, and so on, and 3) to put data segmented by phone or word boundary. This pape...

Quantitative analysis of fundamental frequency (F0) contours in yes/no-questions and coordinated questions, are compared across eight Arabic dialects, based on scripted role play data from the Intonational Variation in Arabic corpus [1]. Visualisation of the F0 contour of all tokens is used to evaluate how consistently speakers produce a typical contour in each dialect, for each question type. ...

In this paper, multidialectal acoustic modeling based on sharing data across dialects is addressed. A comparative study of different methods of combining data based on decision tree clustering algorithms is presented. Approaches evolved differ in the way of evaluating the similarity of sounds between dialects, and the decision tree structure applied. Proposed systems are tested with Spanish dia...

This research is entitled "Case Morphemes in the Kurmanji and Hawrami Dialects”, which lays emphasis on case its morphemes aforementioned dialects. In research, form, shape, position of use used singular plural cases both dialects are presented analyzed. Additionally, relation between concord has been disclosed, with reference to similarities differences