Algerian Arabic is an Arabic dialect spoken in Algeria characterized by the absence of writing resources and standardization, hence it is considered as an under-resourced language. It differs from Modern Standard Arabic on all levels of linguistic representation, from phonology and morphology to lexicon and syntax. In this paper, we present a conventional orthography for Algerian Arabic, follow...

In this paper, we investigate different approaches for dialect identification in Arabic broadcast speech. These methods are based on phonetic and lexical features obtained from a speech recognition system, and bottleneck features using the i-vector framework. We studied both generative and discriminative classifiers, and we combined these features using a multi-class Support Vector Machine (SVM...

We present a study on sentence-level Arabic Dialect Identification using the newly developed Multidialectal Parallel Corpus of Arabic (MPCA) – the first experiments on such data. Using a set of surface features based on characters and words, we conduct three experiments with a linear Support Vector Machine classifier and a meta-classifier using stacked generalization – a method not previously a...

Can some black-white differences in reading achievement be traced to differences in language background? Many African American children speak a dialect that differs from the mainstream dialect emphasized in school. We examined how use of alternative dialects affects decoding, an important component of early reading and marker of reading development. Behavioral data show that use of the alternat...

Audio-visual translation (AVT) has grown significantly as a field in the studies. AVT subfields are dubbing and subtitling. This study aims to investigate viewers’ reactions toward subtitling of English animated movie, Cars, from into Arabic. The is quantitative. An online questionnaire was administered elicit viewer’s chosen movie. showed strong evidence that works dubbed Egyptian dialect more...

w w w .p os te rs es si on .c om www.postersession.com Luoshan is a small county with long history and brilliant culture. Lying in south Henan Province, it covers an area about 3000 square kilometers, with a constant population of about 200,000. Few materials on the tones of Luoshan Dialect (LSD) have been found. It is a pity that up to now no literature describing the neutral tone behavior in ...

The research aims to identify the procedures carried out by translators deal with translating Literary Dialectal Dialogue (LDD) in English translations of contemporary Saudi and Egyptian novels. significance this study is that it focuses on two Arabic dialects examines what are translation if these shift changes dialect. involves an analysis random selections LDD were extracted from several use...

This paper investigates the influence of phonological learning upon the perception of non-native vowels. Four groups of Korean and Japanese English learners, at two levels of English experience, and a group of older monolingual Korean listeners were assessed on the perception and production of Australian English monophthongal front vowels: /i: w e æ a:/. Korean is of interest, because of a rece...