. This paper describes a tool designed to allow linguists to manipulate the prosody of an utterance via a symbolic representation in order to evaluate linguistic models. Prosody is manipulated via a Praat TextGrid which allows the user to modify the rhythm and melody. Rhythm is manipulated by factoring segmental duration into three components: (i) intrinsic duration determined by phonemic ident...

This study explores the relative contribution of geographic and objective linguistic distances to the perceived and estimated linguistic distances between Norwegian dialects as judged by non-linguists. The perceived linguistic distances were quantified by playing recordings of fifteen Norwegian dialects to groups of subjects from the same fifteen places and having them judge the linguistic dist...

Epistemic modality involves complex contextual dependencies that linguists have studied (Roberts 1989; Veltman 1996). We show that they have a natural treatment within a continuation style semantics.

A user-friendly interface to search bilingual resources is of great help to NLP developers as well as pure-linguists. Using bilingual resources is difficult for linguists who are unfamiliar with computation, which hampers capabilities of bilingual resources. NLP developers sometimes need a kind of workbench to check their resources. The online interface this paper introduces can satisfy these n...

Statement of the problem. Smart technologies are gaining popularity in educational process, especially after start coronavirus pandemic. The purpose article is to analyze detail specifics smart use Chinese language classes for linguistic students. A review scientific literature showed that problems using process subject research by many Russian and international scientists (N.N. Vlasova, E.N. K...

Linguists study language and use in a range of settings populations, yet they have not studied language, interaction, communication behaviors functions the dying. This article argues that should, using an account death Gregory Bateson to make concrete questions could be asked, then showing some theoretical practical contributions answers might make. The goal such endeavor would respectfully con...