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Showing 1 to 20 of 231 for “"dialects"”.
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Vowel Phonology in Russian Dialects: First Pre-Stress Syllable in Dialects Characterized by Akan'e
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T00:12:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7500381.pdf: 10646621 bytes, checksum: fe204eca9c100713eaaef71fbfe86210 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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A representation for musical dialects
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1985.
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Northern English Dialects: A perceptual approach
Perceptual dialectology has the capacity to deliver a great many benefits to the study of language varieties. It also allows examination of the underlying factors in dialect use such as the ‘beliefs, attitudes and strategies’ (Preston, 1999: xxiii) which make up language users’ reactions to …
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Studying dialects to understand human language
… into human speech processing. A study clustering dialects using k-means clustering is done. Self-organizing maps are proposed as a tool for dialect research, and a self-organizing map is implemented for the purposes of testing this. Several areas for further research are identified, including how …
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Word Order in the Older Germanic Dialects
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:49:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7121234.pdf: 12953256 bytes, checksum: 32ac6ec3b0cc194f035f64c5f326f817 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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Metaphony in Italian and Spanish dialects revisited
… a diachronic framework. In many of the Italian dialects which demonstrate metaphony to one degree or another, the postonic vowels, which historically triggered the tonic vowel change, have neutralized or been entirely lost. This often means that metaphony has been morphologized.
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When do dialects become languages? A cognitive perspective
… to identify the boundaries between languages and dialects, yet these distinctions are inconsistent and are often as political as they are linguistic (Chambers & Trudgill, 1998). A different perspective is offered in this thesis, by investigating how closely related linguistic varieties are …
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Computer-aided contributions to the study of Irish dialects
The LASID was compiled over two decades ago, without computers in mind, and the work which follows may be considered as an attempt to graft computer technology onto traditional dialect research methodology. However, in view of the benefits gained from this combination of disciplines, we hope that a …
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The St. Louis Corridor: Mixing, Competing, and Retreating Dialects
… the contact between the two competing Corridor dialects (NCS and Midland). Instead of demonstrating dialect leveling or movement of existing dialect boundaries, the NCS and Midland dialect features interact both at the phonological and broad dialectal level. During the period of Inland North …
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Relative clauses in dialects of English : a typological approach
This Ph.D thesis compares different dialects, including the Celtic varieties Scottish and Irish English, with regard to mainly adnominal relative clauses. Other types of relative clauses (nominal relative clauses, sentential relative clauses, and intermediate types assembled on a cline) are treated …
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Characterizing phonetic transformations and fine-grained acoustic differences across dialects
… speech science and technology in analyzing dialects. In speech science, investigating phonetic rules is usually manually laborious and time consuming, limiting the amount of data analyzed. Without sufficient data, the analysis could potentially overlook or over-specify certain phonetic …
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Love’s Dialects: Proposed Additions in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Intercultural Couples
<p>Intercultural romantic relationships have become an increasingly prominent feature of contemporary society due to globalization, migration, and cross-cultural exchange (Livingston & Brown, 2017). However, these partnerships are also associated with elevated levels of relational distress and …
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A Semantic Syntax of Grammatical Negation in the Older Germanic Dialects
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Voicing in transition. Laryngeal characteristics in West-Germanic and Italo-Romance dialects
Contains fulltext : 200514.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Grammaticalization of Spanish 'De': Reanalysis of (De)queismo in Southern Cone Dialects
… Thirdly, the variation between Southern Cone dialects in the use of (de) queismo reflects different semantic nuances of de ; hence, different grammaticalization stages.
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The Effect of American Regional Dialects Upon Speaker Credibility and Perceived Personality
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-12T22:32:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 7405632.PDF: 4944188 bytes, checksum: 1f0c2af24a20c6ceba868645037908a4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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A quantitative model in dialect subgrouping: The case of modern Wu dialects
… present a new model for the comparative study of dialects with the quantitative measurements, and under this new model, the subgrouping of the Modern Wu dialects, one of the major groups of Chinese dialects, is carried out, based on the syllable initials.
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Transfers from Venetan and Trentino dialects in the processing of English phrasal verbs
The existing literature on bilingualism, second language learning and transfers appears to have focused primarily on standard languages, with only a few exceptions. In the present study, we elected to use phrasal verbs as a means of investigating dialect-to-language transfer in dialect speakers …
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