In this paper, we introduce a dialect recognition method that makes use of phonetic models adapted per dialect without phonetically labeled data. We show that this method can be implemented efficiently within an existing PRLM[1] system. We compare the performance of this system with other state-of-theart dialect recognition methods (both acoustic and token-based) on the NIST LRE 2007 English an...

this article examines the number of arabic dialects, reminding their majority in a comparative and a practical way. then comes the words of ibn jinni in unusualness and usualness in the language and its four types and represents them as stated in ibn jinni’s books and specially their characteristics. also shows that the purpose of reading the unusualness does not mean they are in unusual dialec...

PURPOSE To investigate regional dialect variation in the vowel systems of typically developing 8- to 12-year-old children. METHOD Thirteen vowels in isolated h_d words were produced by 94 children and 93 adults (males and females). All participants spoke American English and were born and raised in 1 of 3 distinct dialect regions in the United States: western North Carolina (Southern dialect)...

Socioperceptual research has shown that speech perception can be biased by the perceived dialect of a speaker. While these studies have focused on vowels, the current study investigates whether fricative perception exhibits similar dialect effects. The Mandarin alveolar-retroflex contrast, often used for distinguishing between Beijing and Taiwan Mandarin, was the manipulated feature. When prese...

Automatic dialect classification has gained interests in the field of speech research because it is important to characterize speaker traits and to estimate knowledge that could improve integrated speech technology (e.g., speech recognition, speaker recognition). This study addresses novel advances in unsupervised spontaneous Latin American Spanish dialect classification. The problem considers ...

Perception of dialect variation is well studied with respect to perceptual similarity of talkers based on dialectal markers. This study examines the perceptual distinctiveness of regional vowel variants in light of cross-generational changes in vowel productions. Listeners from two regional dialects of English identified the dialect of the speaker in monosyllabic words (produced by older adults...

This investigation compares dialect use by African American children differing in socioeconomic status (SES) and gender. Subjects were 5- and 6-year-old boys (n = 30) and girls (n = 36), who were kindergartners attending schools in the Metropolitan Detroit area. Comparisons of the amount of dialect in the children's spontaneous discourse revealed systematic differences relative to SES and gende...