Mutual intelligibility and similarity of chinese dialects: Predicting judgments from objective measures

Linguistics in the Netherlands

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 223-234

  Tang, Chaoju ^a,b   Van Heuven, Vincent J ^b  

^a CHONGQING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 51249140726     PISSN: 09297332     EISSN: 15699919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/avt.24.21tan     Document Type: Article

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