The task of recognizing spoken words is notoriously difficult. Once dialectal variation is considered, the difficulty of this task increases. When living in a new dialect region, however, processing difficulties associated with dialectal variation dissipate over time. Through a series of primed lexical decision tasks (form priming, semantic priming, and long-term repetition priming), we examine...

In this work, we focus on the problems of the automatic treatment of oral spoken in the Tunisian media. This oral is marked by the use of code-switching between the Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and the Tunisian dialect (TD). Our goal is to build useful resources to learn language models that can be used in automatic speech recognition applications. As it is a variant of MSA, we describe in this...

This paper examines tone features on the basis of an acoustic phonetic analysis of F0 and duration data from 10 speakers in Qimen Hui Chinese Dialect. The results show that there are 3 level tones, 2 rising tones, and 1 falling tone in Qimen. The fact that speakers use different F0 contours in the realization of different types of level tones sheds light on the understanding of underlying mecha...

An experiment was conducted to examine whether word initial pitch accent information could be exploited to reduce possible word candidates by speakers of an accentless dialect in Japan. 40 native high school students from Fukushima were presented with Tokyo Japanese materials used in an earlier study, employing a gating task. Results show that the subjects performed significantly above chance, ...

This paper proposes methods for determining an appropriate mixing ratio of dialects in automatic speech recognition (ASR) for dialects. To handle ASR for various dialects, it has been reported to be effective to train a language model using a dialectmixed corpus. One reason behind this is geographical continuity of spoken dialect; we regard spoken dialect as a mixture of various dialects. This ...

The performance of speech recognition systems will be improved if the corpus is organized in the specialized domain and is applied in a consistent way for speech recognition in specific situations. Vietnamese dialects are various. The building of corpus for Vietnamese dialect is the first step for implementing the system of dialect identification used for increasing the performance of Vietnames...

in this article, the low back vowel /a/ in word-final positions in eghlidian dialect, one of persian dialects, is studied. this vowel is represented phonetically as [a], [o] and [@] in different phonetic environments. therefore many words were collected via interviewing ten native speakers so that these different alternant forms can be accounted for appropriately. since one of the authors of th...

this paper is an attempt to shed light on the effects of modernization, urbanization, monolingual educational system, and mass media as well as the process of globalization on dialect leveling among persian dialects. in so doing, the first part of the paper elaborates on the relationship between globalization and sociolinguistics, and on the concept of standardization. also, it discusses some ...

This thematic issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language addresses the question of whether dialects in western Europe are dying. Can dialects still be a medium of communication in our industrialized and increasingly urbanized societies? Is there a place for dialects in a globalizing world? And what kind of dialect do we speak right now and shall we be speaking in the near f...