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Mutual Intelligibility between Closely Related Languages.

This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, using an integrated approach to both diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include child and adult bilingualism an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gooskens
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter Mouton 2024.
Series:Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] Series.
Subjects:
Angewandte Linguistik.
Mehrsprachigkeit.
Soziolinguistik.
Sprachpolitik.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Closely Related Languages.
Linguistic Distances.
Mutual Intelligibility.
Receptive Multilingualism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Part I: Measurements
  • Chapter 2 Methods for measuring intelligibility
  • Chapter 3 Introducing the project Mutual Intelligibility between Closely Related Languages (MICReLa)
  • Chapter 4 Extra-linguistic determinants of intelligibility
  • Chapter 5 Linguistic and paralinguistic determinants of intelligibility
  • Part II: Further analyses
  • Chapter 6 Asymmetric intelligibility
  • Chapter 7 Towards a model of mutual intelligibility
  • Part III: Applications and conclusions
  • Chapter 8 Applications of mutual intelligibility studies
  • Chapter 9 Conclusions and next steps
  • Appendices
  • References
  • Index