Kuwait, as most Gulf countries, is suffering from an increasing loss of identity for both the city and its inhabitants. This requires some soul-searching into the deep structure stratum to arrive at mythic images more relevant to the Kuwaiti cultural context. One way of achieving this is through the adoption of the study and analysis of local vernacular built environments as one of the basic me...

Newspapers has shown steep decline of circulation and advertising revenue in the west. Online advertising is taking away the majority of advertising revenue from print Increasing printing costs also a major concern for the decline of profits of newspapers. Asian countries like Japan, China and India is not seeing any immediate threat for daily newspapers as these countries are dominated by vern...

We present MAGEAD, a morphological analyzer and generator for the Arabic language family. Our work is novel in that it explicitly addresses the need for processing the morphology of the dialects. MAGEAD provides an analysis to a root+pattern representation, it has separate phonological and orthographic representations, and it allows for combining morphemes from different dialects.

Kammu, a Mon-Khmer language spoken in Northern Laos, is a language that has developed lexical tones rather recently, from the point of view of language history. One of the main dialects of this language is a tone language with high or low tone on each syllable, while the other main dialect lacks lexical tones. The dialects differ only marginally in other respects. This type of language material...

The current study investigated the perception of the three-way distinction among Korean voiceless stops in non-tonal Seoul and tonal Kyungsang Korean. The question addressed is whether listeners from these two dialects differ in the way they perceive the three stops. Forty-two Korean listeners (21 each from Seoul and South Kyungsang) were tested in a perception experiment with stimuli in which ...

The aim of this paper is to show that Northwestern Latvian dialects (also called Tamian) are insufficiently characterized by placing them on a simple linear hierarchy of feminine gender loss, which is how they are traditionally approached in Latvian dialectology. While Lithuanian and Central and High Latvian dialects all have very similar and fairly canonical gender systems, various Northwester...

The present paper reports on an investigation to find an answer to the question to what extent subjects base their judgments of linguistic distances on actual dialect data presented in a listening experiment and to what extent they involve previous knowledge of the dialects when making their judgments. The point of departure for our investigation were distances between 15 Norwegian dialects as ...

Abstract In this paper, I explore the early history of word standard as a linguistic term, arguing that it came to compete with designation common language in seventeenth century. The latter phrase was, turn, formed by ideas on Greek koine during Renaissance and appears have been first widely used collocation referring language-like entity. order sketch evolution, discuss premodern koine. Then,...

Abstract The Malagasy language is not strictly confined to Madagascar but it also spoken in Mayotte, one of the four islands which constitute Comoros archipelago. inhabitants Mayotte are, fact, divided between two very distinct mother languages, Shimaore, a Bantu dialect similar dialects other three islands, Malagasy, an Austronesian language. In turn, represented by varieties, Kibosy Kimaore, ...

effects of neglecting climatic patterns in buildings are more intense in severe climates such as tropical. it isresulting an excessive consumption of fossil fuels and consequently environmental pollutions in and after modern era. the objective of this research is to find climate-oriented intentions and solutions in tropical areas and compare them with dezful and bandar-e-lenge vernacular houses...