This mutual intelligibility study contains a production and perception experiment on English vowels by Chinese learners. In the production experiment, 45 male first-year Chinese college students were recorded. They hailed from nine different dialectal backgrounds (three supergroups), with five speakers per dialect group. The stimuli were , , , , , , , and ...

this paper, based on two dialects of kurdish, studies the -g{r suffix of farsi morphologically and semantically. in the sorani (so:rani) dialect of kurdish this suffix is -k{r. in hawrami (h{wrami) dialect of kurdish the present verbal stem of (k{rdaj) (to do) is -k{r and in sorani it is -k{. sorani has a suffix called -{r similar to english -er that produces nouns with mainly agent and instrum...

Objectives: The present research aims to study the normal development of Percentage of Consonant Correct (PCC) in Kurdish-speaking children, with Middle Kurmanji-Mukryani Dialect as an Articulation Competency Index (ACI). PCC was examined in terms of the manner of articulation and position of sound in the word.  Methods: In this descriptoanalytical cross-sectional study, 120 Kurdish-speak...

in order to evaluation of morphological selection criteria for salt tolerance screening in wheat (t. aestivum l.) a factorial experiment based on completely randomized design in 3 replications were conducted under greenhouse condition. salinity treatments involved 4 levels: s=1.3dsm-1 (control), 5, 10, 15 dsm-1 from calcium chloride and sodium chloride with 10:1 (na: ca ratio) and another facto...

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...

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...