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...

extended abstract 1. introduction nowadays kurdish language is often divided to 3 main groups: 1-the southern group consists of several incongrous accents that are spoken in the sout of iranian kurdistan. 2-the central group consists of iraqi northeastern kurdish, kurdistan of iran and the adjacent areas around it and called surani. 3-northern kurdi wich is the language of more than ⅔ of kurdis...

This study tested whether estimated speaker age influences estimated dialect strength. Twenty young listeners judged unscripted monologues in terms of speaker age and dialect strength. The speech samples were produced by 3 elderly men, 3 elderly women, 3 young men and 3 young women, all native speakers of the Arjeplog dialect. In addition to the original speech samples, manipulated versions wer...

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...

since the true understanding of each dialect depends on an understanding of language changes, this paper discusses the historical course of language in egypt and the linguistic features of the egyptian dialect based on historical linguistics. what this paper takes into consideration is the presence of arabic in egypt before the advent of islam and discusses the extent of its impression from the...

In an earlier study, we proposed a very effective dialect/accent classification algorithm, which is named Word based Dialect Classification (WDC). The WDC works well for large size corpora and significantly outperforms traditional Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) based systems, which is claimed to be the best performing system for language identification. For a small train...

The current study examined the role of native language on the perceptual similarity space of regional dialect variation. Native and non-native speakers of American English were asked to group a set of talkers by regional dialect in a free classification task. The two listener groups exhibited similar dialect classification strategies and perceptual similarity structures. However, the non-native...

We present the second ever evaluated Arabic dialect-to-dialect machine translation effort, and the first to leverage external resources beyond a small parallel corpus. The subject has not previously received serious attention due to lack of naturally occurring parallel data; yet its importance is evidenced by dialectal Arabic’s wide usage and breadth of inter-dialect variation, comparable to th...