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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 ...
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A Multi-Dialectal Dataset for German Dialect ASR and Dialect-to-Standard Speech Translation

Interspeech
Although Germany has a diverse landscape of dialects, they are underrepresented in current automatic speech recognition (ASR) research. To enable studies of how robust models are towards dialectal variation, we present Betthupferl, an evaluation dataset ...
Verena Blaschke, Miriam Winkler, C. Forster, Gabriele Wenger-Glemser, Barbara Plank   +4 more
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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 ...
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Greek dialect variation

2009
In this paper we propose that spontaneous gemination in the dialects of Cyprus and Kos is part of the Multiple Parallel Grammars (co-grammars) for lexical gemination in Greek. Stress position is irrelevant to spontaneous gemination. Instead a disyllabic trochaic domain is formed on one of the prominent positions of the word edges, the word-initial or ...
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Dialectal Variation inside CP as Parametric Variation

1993
The embedded sentence is nowadays generally considered to be the maximal projection of the complementiser C (Pesetsky 1982; Chomsky 1986). Correspondingly, sentences are analysed as CP’s. Spec-Head agreement and X’-theory interact to allow not only for a head position but also for a Spec position. This neatly accounts for examples like the following:
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Variation in Dialect Proficiency and Restructuring

Phonetica, 1975
Abstract This paper investigates the linguistic consequences of the post-World War II relocation of low-German speaking Pomeranians in the west. These speakers have been under the influence of three language norms; those of standard German, of Pomeranian low-German, and of Schleswig-Holstein low-German for 25 years.
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I was sat there talking all night: a corpus-based study on factors governing intra-dialectal variation in British English 1

English Language and Linguistics, 2016
Ulrike Stange
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Ambiguities in Japanese pseudo-coordination and its dialectal variation

Linguistik Aktuell, 2022
Masaharu Shimada, Akiko Nagano
exaly  

Syntactic variation

2010
This book was first published in 2010. The study of Romance languages can tell us a great deal about sentence structure and its variation in general. Focusing on the dialects of Italy - including the islands of Sardinia and Sicily - the authors explore three thematic areas: the nominal domain, the verbal domain and the left periphery of the clause. The
Ledgeway, Adam, D'Alessandro, Roberta, Roberts, Ian   +2 more
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Grammatical and Lexical Dialectal Variation in Spanish: The Case of deísmo

Languages, 2023
Edita Gutierrez, Pilar Perez Ocon
exaly