Socioperceptual research has shown that speech perception can be biased by the perceived dialect of a speaker. While these studies have focused on vowels, the current study investigates whether fricative perception exhibits similar dialect effects. The Mandarin alveolar-retroflex contrast, often used for distinguishing between Beijing and Taiwan Mandarin, was the manipulated feature. When prese...

This paper describes a methodology, and the results stemming from it, for analysing the dynamic encoding of speaker identity and dialect in prosodic parameters. A method based on employing properties of the well known Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) algorithm’s path of best match allows the separation of purely dynamic from static properties of acoustic parameters and hence their evaluation as to dy...

This mutual intelligibility study contains a production and perception experiment on English vowels by Chinese learners. In the production experiment, 45 male first-year Chinese college students were recorded. They hailed from nine different dialectal backgrounds (three supergroups), with five speakers per dialect group. The stimuli were , , , , , , , and ...

Automatic dialect classification has gained interests in the field of speech research because it is important to characterize speaker traits and to estimate knowledge that could improve integrated speech technology (e.g., speech recognition, speaker recognition). This study addresses novel advances in unsupervised spontaneous Latin American Spanish dialect classification. The problem considers ...

Dialect recognition is a challenging and multifaceted problem. Distinguishing between dialects can rely upon many tiers of interpretation of speech data—e.g., prosodic, phonetic, spectral, and word. High-accuracy automatic methods for dialect recognition typically use either phonetic or spectral characteristics of the input. A challenge with spectral system, such as those based on shifted-delta...

h?r?m? is a g?r?n? dialect and subset of g?r?n?-z?z? linguistic branch and is considered as one of northwest iranian dialects. h?r?m? is a preserved dialect and have preserved the archaic phonetic and inflective characteristics, so etymological study of this dialect leads to considerable points in more accurate identification of iranian languages. in this article, etymological study of some ver...

elegiac poetry written about the ahlolbeit (the holy prophet’s household) in khuzestani arabic is a rich folklore source. this poetic genre is beautiful and appealing and almost comprehensible for its audience. however, it is mysteriously difficult for all to read. this often leads to misunderstandings. the incomprehensibility of khuzestani arabic may be due to different reasons. for example,...

the different constructions of [ah] which is an infinitive are prevalent in the dialect of the historical village of xanik and its neighboring villages. singular second person paradigm in present tense of [ah] infinitive in the dialect is a survivor of sanskrit and old persian languages. some constructions of this infinitive are widely used, because they are attributive verbs meaning is being a...

as pioneer trends in iranian computational dialectology, the leveneshtain algorithm applied to mazandarani dialect data - extracted from lai – revealed regional dialect in the northern range of the alborz mountains. current synchronic fieldwork aimed to determine vowels responsible for regional variation, and likewise reliability and validity of the research findings, through vowel frequency me...

In this work, we focus on the problems of the automatic treatment of oral spoken in the Tunisian media. This oral is marked by the use of code-switching between the Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and the Tunisian dialect (TD). Our goal is to build useful resources to learn language models that can be used in automatic speech recognition applications. As it is a variant of MSA, we describe in this...