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...

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 main function of rural areas in the third world is the agricultural function which is crucially important because of its great effects on employment, moderating income and poverty, food security and self-efficacy. this article studies the role of agriculture (as an independent variable) in rural development (related variable) of miyankangi district in sistan. the method of the study was des...

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.

kurmanji is probably the most well known variety of kurdish language. apart from such countries as turkey, iraq, syria, and some areas in western iran, it is spoken in khorasan-e shomali and khorasan-e razavi provinces in north-east iran. the residents of biglar –a village near quchan in north-west khorasan-e razavi province- as well as many other people living in the neighboring villages speak...

insulin-like growth factor-i (igf-1) is a peptide hormone which is similar in molecular structure to insulin and it is located on chromosome 5 in cattle. since the igf-1 plays an important role in the growth and development of multiple tissues, the purpose of current study was to identify the igf-1 gene polymorphism in sistani beef cattle. a total of 53 sistani beef cattle (one year) were rando...

background : in this experiment, abdominal cavity of 518 iranian sistani cattle and 498 brahman cattle were inspected for the presence of setaria spp. from april 2012 - may 2013. methods: the species were determined by microscopic examination of the mor-phological characteristics of the anterior and posterior parts of the parasites and authentic guidelines. results: the overall prevalence of se...