Linguistic distance: A quantitative measure of the distance between English and other languages

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-11

  Chiswick, Barry R ^a   Miller, Paul W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Immigrants; Language proficiency; Linguistic distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247200471     PISSN: 01434632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14790710508668395     Document Type: Article

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