We associate optimality theory with abduction and preference handling. We present linguistic problems that appear in the study of dialects as new application of abduction and preference handling. Differences in German dialects originate from different rankings of linguistic constraints which determine the well-formedness of expressions within a language. We introduce a framework for analyzing d...

Infants might be better at teasing apart dialects with different language rules when hearing the dialects at different times, since language learners do not always combine input heard at different times. However, no previous research has independently varied the temporal distribution of conflicting language input. Twelve-month-olds heard two artificial language streams representing different di...

This paper addresses the use of a data-driven approach to determine a multidialectal phone set for an automatic speech recognition system for Spanish dialects. This approach is based on a decision tree clustering algorithm that tries to cluster contextual units of different dialects. This procedure avoids the definition of a global phonetic inventory and the previous study of similarity of soun...

While Modern Standard Arabic is the formal spoken and written language of the Arab world; dialects are the major communication mode for everyday life. Therefore, identifying a speaker’s dialect is critical in the Arabic-speaking world for speech processing tasks, such as automatic speech recognition or identification. In this paper, we examine two approaches that reduce the Universal Background...

Sentiment analysis is an application of natural language processing (NLP) that requires a machine learning algorithm and dataset. In some cases, the dataset availability scarce, particularly with Arabic dialects, precisely Bahraini ones, which necessitates using approach such as translation, where rich source exploited to create target this study, Amazon product reviews in dialects presented. T...

kakhki dialect is one of the dialects of the south of razavi khorasan province which is spoken in a subdivision of gonabad, called “kakhk”. this dialect and two other dialects (khaniki and ferdowsi), as far as the researcher knows, are the only linguistically described dialects in the razavi khorasan and south khorasan provinces which have the ergative case marking. ergative case marking in thi...

Standard Finland Swedish is often described as having Finnish-like intonation, with characteristic falling pitch accents. In this study, it is found that the falling pitch accent occurs with varying degrees of frequency in different Finland Swedish dialects, being most frequent in the dialects that have had the greatest amount of contact with Finnish, and less frequent (though in many cases sti...

The influence of standard Italian on the minor Romance languages spoken in Italy (i.e. the Italian dialects) permeates all aspects of their grammar. In this article, I provide an example of the way in which Italian prosody can affect dialects, a poorly studied type of influence. I show that a speaker may have a range of options available when speaking ‘dialect,’ including forms that are influen...

This paper describes the process of semi-automatically converting dictionaries from paper to structured text (database) and the integration of these into the CLARIN infrastructure in order to make the dictionaries accessible and retrievable for the research community. The case study at hand is that of the curation of 42 fascicles of the Dictionaries of the Brabantic and Limburgian dialects, and...