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ABSTRACT Objectives Self‐rating questionnaires provide a detailed overview of the symptomatic severity of post‐stroke dysphagia in the geriatric population; such assessment tools or the subjective evaluation of post‐stroke dysphagia are unavailable for Urdu‐speaking patients.
Syeda Amna Ejaz +4 more
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Multi-Dialect Arabic Speech Recognition [PDF]
This paper presents the design and development of multi-dialect automatic speech recognition for Arabic. Deep neural networks are becoming an effective tool to solve sequential data problems, particularly, adopting an end-to-end training of the system.
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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L’arabe dialectal marocain, entre centralisation et territorialisation
In recent years, several attempts to normalize and standardize a "common", "uniform" or "central" Moroccan Arabic have emerged in Morocco. However, this language does not have an authentic existence given the multiplicity of Moroccan Arabic dialects.
Mourad El Baroudi
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Research on copulas in Arabic dialects has hitherto largely focused on the pronominal copula, and has also mostly ignored Maghrebi dialects. Drawing on published literature as well as fieldwork-based corpora, this article identifies and analyzes a ...
Adam Benkato, Christophe Pereira
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Abstract Building on Uriel Weinreich's pioneering (1953) Languages in Contact and on Peter Matthews' insightful commentary on it (2006, this volume) this paper discusses the crucial role of bilingualism, and specifically different types of bilingualism, in understanding whether and how the initial changes at the level of Saussure's parole can ...
Luna Filipović, John A. Hawkins
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Contact and Language Change: Using the Present to Explain the Past1
Abstract Although we may know the outcome of language changes that could have resulted from language contact in the past, we are unlikely to know how and why these changes occurred unless we also know about the individual speakers who came into contact and the nature of their interactions—information that all too often is impossible to uncover.
Jenny Cheshire
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The Origin of North Mesopotamian Arabic
This research paper explores the origin and distinct characteristics of the Noarth Mesopotamian Arabic dialect, specifically the Moslawi dialect spoken in Mosul, northern Iraq.
Hakam Muhammed Ghanim Hakam Muhammed Ghanim
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Towards an Integrated Model of Change: Language Contact, Dialect Contact, Internal Variation
Abstract This article outlines an integrated model of language change, where change is viewed as the acquisition of innovative grammars by individual native speakers. It is integrated in that it shows how change that is induced by contact between languages, dialects and sociolects can be understood, alongside purely internal change, as part of a single
Christopher Lucas
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