Essays about: "Standard Arabic"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words Standard Arabic.

1. 1. Standard Arabic and Scottish Gaelic: Shared typological features

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

   Author : Barbara Bakker; [2023-08-16]
   Keywords : Standard Arabic; Scottish Gaelic; Semitic; Celtic; substrate hypothesis; contact theory; structural similarity; typological feature; typological universals;

   Abstract : Although Celtic languages and Semitic languages belong to separate language families, they share numerous typological similarities that are common to Semitic languages but not shared by Standard Indo-European languages. The occurrence and the reasons for these similarities have been the focus of a whole research field, concerned with linguistic, historical, and anthropological hypotheses about possible reasons for said similarities, as well as with linguistic analyses and comparisons of specific Celtic and Semitic languages, such as Hebrew, Welsh and Breton. READ MORE

3. 2. Homograph Disambiguation and Diacritization for Arabic Text-to-Speech Using Neural Networks

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Harm Lameris; [2021]
   Keywords : Computational Linguistics; Language Technology; Diacritization; Neural Networks; Deep Learning; Arabic; Natural Language Processing; NLP; Text-to-Speech; TTS; Homograph Disambiguation;

   Abstract : Pre-processing Arabic text for Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems poses major challenges, as Arabic omits short vowels in writing. This omission leads to a large number of homographs, and means that Arabic text needs to be diacritized to disambiguate these homographs, in order to be matched up with the intended pronunciation. READ MORE

4. 3. Automatic Speech Recognition for low-resource languages using Wav2Vec2 : Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) as an example of a low-resource language

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för information och teknik

   Author : Taha Zouhair; [2021]
   Keywords : Automatic Speech Recognition; Facebook Wav2Vec; Mozilla Common Voice; Low-Resource Language;

   Abstract : The need for fully automatic translation at DigitalTolk, a Stockholm-based company providing translation services, leads to exploring Automatic Speech Recognition as a first step for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Facebook AI recently released a second version of its Wav2Vec models, dubbed Wav2Vec 2. READ MORE

5. 4. Understanding Parenting Challenges in a Migration Context : A qualitative study on Arabic‐speaking immigrant  parents´ experiences of raising their children while  integrating in Sweden

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

   Author : Israa Maher Attaallah; [2019]
   Keywords : Arabic-speaking immigrants; children; integration; parenting; Sweden; Arabisktalande invandrare; barn; integration; föräldraskap; Sverige; المهاجرون العرب ، الأطفال ، الاندماج ، الأبوة و الأمومة، السويد;

   Abstract : Experiences of parenting in migration contexts undergo particular changes that develop various challenges. This qualitative study aims at exploring challenges and concerns of Arabic-speaking immigrant parents in Sweden regarding parenting while integrating into a migration context that differs from their own upbringing. READ MORE

6. 5. Crosslinguistic influence in the Arabic of Iraqi Arabic-Swedish bilingual children (5-7) in Sweden

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Mohaned Ridha; [2015]
   Keywords : Iraqi Arabic-Swedish bilingual children; Arabic first language acquisition; crosslinguistic influence; bilingualism; code-switching; loan translation; transfer; Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives MAIN .;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to investigate crosslinguistic influence in the Arabic language of Iraqi Arabic-Swedish bilingual children (5-7) who live in Sweden. The scope is to study lexical, morphological and syntactic uses in the children’s speech that do not belong to the Iraqi Arabic variety (IAV). READ MORE