Experimental Methods for Measuring Intelligibility of Closely Related Language Varieties
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Methods for Measuring Intelligibility of Closely Related Language Varieties
Introduction The exact number of known living languages varies from 5,000 to 10,000, depending on one's definition of 'language'. An even larger number of dialects are spoken worldwide. Many of these languages and dialects (from now on taken together as 'languages' or 'varieties') are so similar that they are mutually intelligible to varying degrees, even without prior contact or formal instruc...
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تاریخ انتشار 2014