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, ...

in this article, the low back vowel /a/ in word-final positions in eghlidian dialect, one of persian dialects, is studied. this vowel is represented phonetically as [a], [o] and [@] in different phonetic environments. therefore many words were collected via interviewing ten native speakers so that these different alternant forms can be accounted for appropriately. since one of the authors of th...

this paper is an attempt to shed light on the effects of modernization, urbanization, monolingual educational system, and mass media as well as the process of globalization on dialect leveling among persian dialects. in so doing, the first part of the paper elaborates on the relationship between globalization and sociolinguistics, and on the concept of standardization. also, it discusses some ...

The acquisition of regional dialect variation is an inherent part of the language learning process that takes place in the specific environments in which the child participates. This study examined dialect perception by 9-12-year-olds who grew up in two very diverse dialect regions in the United States, Western North Carolina (NC) and Southeastern Wisconsin (WI). In a dialect identification tas...

function; \codon dialect" found for individual unicellular organisms [1]. Taxonomically related organisms have similar dialects but those distantly related have distinct ones. For example, characteristics of E. coli codon{choice (E. coli dialect) di er considerably from those of yeast S. cerevisiae, but are similar to those of Salmonella. By measuring cellular tRNA contents of these three speci...

The task of recognizing spoken words is notoriously difficult. Once dialectal variation is considered, the difficulty of this task increases. When living in a new dialect region, however, processing difficulties associated with dialectal variation dissipate over time. Through a series of primed lexical decision tasks (form priming, semantic priming, and long-term repetition priming), we examine...

ObjectivesHuman papillomaviruses (HPV) are the main etiology of invasive cervical cancer. Together HPV and viral hepatitis account for cause 25% cancers in developing countries. To evaluate association between population movements spread HPV, this study looked at prevalence, genotypes, phylogenetic assessment Great Khorasan, a pilgrimage-tourism province northeast Iran.MethodsFrom March 2013 to...

This project measures and classifies language variation. In contrast to earlier dialectology, we seek a comprehensive characterization of (potentially gradual) differences between dialects, rather than a geographic delineation of (discrete) features of individual words or pronunciations. More general characterizations of dialect differences then become available. We measure phonetic (un)related...