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...

background: congenital heart disease (chd) is the most common congenital anomaly in newborns. this study was performed to determine the live birth incidence of chd by ethnicity and sex in gorgan, northern iran. methods: in this longitudinal, hospital-based study, 18162 live births in dezyani hospital in gorgan, north of iran, were screened for chd, from 2007 through 2009. clinical examination, ...

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 polymorphism in exon three of fabp4 gene and its association with growth traits of 45 sistani (n=30) and dashtiari (n=15) cattle were investigated. dna extraction from the whole blood was performed and its quality was determined by electrophoresis of one percent agarose gel. animal genotypes were determined based on polymerase chain reaction (pcr) products and their band size electrophorese...

background: the main objective of this study was to assess the malnutrition and some socio-economic related factors based on three ethnic groups among primary school children in north of iran in 2010 . methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out through multistage cluster random sampling on 5698 subjects (2505 fars-native, 2154 turkman, and 1039 sistani) in 112 schools. well-trained sta...

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...

This paper examines tone features on the basis of an acoustic phonetic analysis of F0 and duration data from 10 speakers in Qimen Hui Chinese Dialect. The results show that there are 3 level tones, 2 rising tones, and 1 falling tone in Qimen. The fact that speakers use different F0 contours in the realization of different types of level tones sheds light on the understanding of underlying mecha...

An experiment was conducted to examine whether word initial pitch accent information could be exploited to reduce possible word candidates by speakers of an accentless dialect in Japan. 40 native high school students from Fukushima were presented with Tokyo Japanese materials used in an earlier study, employing a gating task. Results show that the subjects performed significantly above chance, ...