Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency, 2022 Language usage on social media varies widely even within the context of American English. Despite this, the majority of natural language processing systems are trained only on “Standard American English,” or SAE, the construction of English most ...
Camille Harris +4 more
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Middle-Class African American English
, 2021 African American English (AAE) is a major area of research in linguistics, but until now, work has primarily been focused on AAE as it is spoken amongst the working classes.
Tracey L. Weldon
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Demographic Dialectal Variation in Social Media: A Case Study of African-American English [PDF]
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2016 Though dialectal language is increasingly abundant on social media, few resources exist for developing NLP tools to handle such language. We conduct a case study of dialectal language in online conversational text by investigating African-American ...
Su Lin Blodgett +2 more
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Dats Wassup!!: Investigating African-American Vernacular English in Transformer-Based Text Generation [PDF]
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2020 The growth of social media has encouraged the written use of African American Vernacular English (AAVE), which has traditionally been used only in oral contexts.
Sophie Groenwold +6 more
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Analyzing Use of Thanks to You: Insights for Language Teaching and Assessment in Second and Foreign Language Contexts [PDF]
, 2011 This investigation of thanks to you in British and American usage was precipitated by a situation at an American university, in which a native Arabic speaker said thanks to you in isolation, making his intended meaning unclear.
Crompton, Peter, Lanteigne, Betty
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PLoS ONE, 2018 The RAVDESS is a validated multimodal database of emotional speech and song. The database is gender balanced consisting of 24 professional actors, vocalizing lexically-matched statements in a neutral North American accent.
S. R. Livingstone, F. Russo
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Metapragmatic Evaluation of Verbal Irony by Speakers of Russian and American English [PDF]
, 2012 The paper discusses metapragmatic assessment of verbal irony by speakers of Russian and American English. The research combines ideas from metapragmatics, folk linguistics and corpus linguistics. Empirical data are drawn from the Russian National Corpus (
Shilikhina, Ksenia
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Dialect awareness and lexical comprehension of mainstream american english in african american english-speaking children. [PDF]
J Speech Lang Hear Res, 2014 Edwards J +6 more
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Beyond saying thanks. Compliment responses in American English and Peninsular Spanish [PDF]
, 2017 This study explores how American English and Peninsular Spanish speakers respond to a compliment. Participants completed an online discourse completion test with nine different complimenting scenarios.
Cots Caimons, Josep Maria +1 more
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Modelling L1 and the artificial language during artificial language learning
Laboratory Phonology, 2023 Artificial language learning research has become a popular tool to investigate universal mechanisms in language learning. However, often it is unclear whether the found effects are due to learning, or due to artefacts of the native language or the ...
Dinah Baer-Henney, Kevin Tang
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