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 ...

OBJECTIVES To establish a Community-Based Model for Speech Therapy in Thailand and to implement it. MATERIALS AND METHOD The development of a Community-Based Model for Speech Therapy was based on the principles of primary healthcare, community-based rehabilitation and institutional sharing. Workshops for speech and language pathologists (SLPs), including "Training for Trainers" and six "Smart...

This paper analyses the EverQuest speech community from a pragmatic point of view, in order to fi nd out how multiplayer games speech communities can be characterized. This study is part of the currently ongoing collective project “Have great faction with the dragons – an EverQuest Study” at the IT University in Copenhagen, of which also Jesper Juul’s “The open and the closed: Games of emergenc...

The speech community (SpCom), a core concept in empirical linguistics, is at the intersection of many principal problems in sociolinguistic theory and method. This paper traces its history of development and divergence, surveys general problems with contemporary notions, and discusses links to key issues in investigating language variation and change. It neither offers a new and correct definit...

We present a detection-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) paradigm that is capable of integrating both the knowledge sources accumulated in the speech science community and the modeling techniques established in the speech processing community. By exploring this new framework, we expect that researchers in the Interspeech community can collaboratively contribute to developing next generat...