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...

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...

The article presents Slovenian dialect names for cutlery used in eating or preparing food – spoon, knife and fork, from a geolinguistic, word-formational as well etymological semantic-motivational perspective. ethnological framework serves particular to present the reasons (non-)borrowing of lexemes. It turns out that terms spoon are not diverse point view borrowing, since denotata have been us...

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...

The chronicle is devoted to the conference “XXXIX All-Russian Dialectological Meeting «Lexical Atlas of Russian Folk Dialects – 2023»” which annually takes place in Saint Petersburg and this time was held on January 30–31, 2023. questions dialect lexicology, lexicography linguistic geography were mainly discussed. These disciplines are concerned with “Lexical Dialects” compiling has been done b...

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 performs an on-line analysis to or generation from a root+pattern+features representation, it has separate phonological and orthographic representations, and it allows for combining morphemes fr...

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 study examines declarative sentence intonation contours in 8 vastly different Swiss German dialects by the application of the Command-Response model. Fundamental frequency patterns of a controlled declarative sentence are analyzed on the global and local level of intonation. The results provide evidence of a different patterning for the dialects in the context of how global and local level...