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Graph convolution-based techniques for pragmatic Arabic figurative language classification. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Artif Intell
Banou Z   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Length and tenseness across Welsh dialects

open access: yes, 2014
Iosad, Pavel; id_orcid
core  

Sociolectal and Dialectal Variation in Prosody

open access: yesLanguage and Speech, 2022
As in many linguistics subfields, studies of prosody have mainly focused on majority languages and dialects and on speakers who hold power in social structures. The goal of this Special Issue is to diversify prosody research in terms of the languages and dialects being investigated, as well as the social structures that influence prosodic variation ...
Meghan Armstrong   +4 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Grammatical and Lexical Dialectal Variation in Spanish: The Case of deísmo [PDF]

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
"Deísmo" is a non-standard dialectal phenomenon consisting of the insertion of a non-required preposition "de" (of) before a non-finite clause: "Me apetece [de] salir" (I want to go out).
Edita Gutiérrez-Rodríguez   +1 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Children's perception of dialect variation

Journal of Child Language, 2013
ABSTRACTA speaker's regional dialect is a rich source of information about that person. Two studies examined five- to six-year-old children's perception of regional dialect: Can they perceive differences among dialects? Have they made meaningful social connections to specific dialects?
Laura, Wagner   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The Entanglement of Dialectal Variation and Speaker Normalization

Language and Speech, 2020
This paper explores the relationship between speaker normalization and dialectal identity in sociolinguistic data, examining a database of vowel formants collected from 88 monolingual American English speakers in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Audio recordings of Finnish- and Italian-heritage American English speakers reading a passage and a word list ...
Wil Rankinen, Kenneth de Jong
openaire   +2 more sources

Types of dialect variation.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1992
Speech variation is of importance to workers in automated speech recognition and synthesis. This paper will discuss specific sources of variability that are of practical concern to these researchers. Quantitative evidence will be presented from American dialects of both English and French to demonstrate how vowel formant frequency variation is ...
openaire   +1 more source

Dialectal variation in word order

open access: yes, 2012
Markopoulos G, Skopeteas S. Dialectal variation in word order. In: 6th International Linguistic Conference: The dialects of Greek from the ancient to the modern times,.
Markopoulos, Giorgos, Skopeteas, Stavros
openaire   +2 more sources

Toward a theory of social dialect variation

Language in Society, 1978
Over the past ten years the study of language in its social context has become a mature field with a substantial body of method and empirical results. As a result of this work we are arriving at new insights into such classical problems as the origin and diffusion of linguistic change, the nature of stylistic variation in language use, and the effect ...
openaire   +1 more source

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