Mutual comprehensibility of written Afrikaans and Dutch: Symmetrical or asymmetrical?

Literary and Linguistic Computing

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 543-556

  Gooskens, Charlotte ^a   Van Bezooijen, Renée ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 34047194097     PISSN: 02681145     EISSN: 14774615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fql036     Document Type: Review

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