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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Levantine Arabic"”.
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Syncope and Epenthesis in Levantine Arabic: A Nonlinear Approach
The nonconcatenative morphology of Arabic played a prominent role in the development of CV phonology. McCarthy (1979, 1981) showed that many Arabic word formation rules can be conceived of as stipulating a CV template to which the segmental phonemes are autosegmentally mapped. In addition, he …
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Deep neural network acoustic models for multi-dialect Arabic speech recognition
… time varying quasi-stationary signals. Arabic is one of the oldest living languages and one of the oldest Semitic languages in the world, it is also the fifth most generally used language and is the mother tongue for roughly 200 million people. Arabic speech recognition has been a …
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High-resolution full-vocal-tract dynamic speech magnetic resonance imaging
… Metropolitan French, Brazilian Portuguese and Levantine Arabic; and (c) analyzing motion variability of a particular subject with respect to a specific subject group. The capabilities of our method have the potential for precise assessment of the oropharyngeal dynamics and comprehensive …
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Automatic Dialect and Accent Recognition and its Application to Speech Recognition
… test our best performing approach on four broad Arabic dialects, ten Arabic sub-dialects, American English vs. Indian English accents, American English Southern vs. Non-Southern, American dialects at the state level plus Canada, and three Portuguese dialects. Our experiments demonstrate that our …
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Computational measures of linguistic variation: a study of Arabic varieties
… between linguistic varieties. I compare five Arabic varieties – Modern Standard Arabic MSA, Gulf Arabic GA, Levantine Arabic LA, Egyptian Arabic EA, and Moroccan Arabic MA – considering both lexical and pronunciation variation. I introduce the idea of measuring the amount of linguistic …