The contribution of linguistic factors to the intelligibility of closely related languages

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 445-467

  Gooskens, Charlotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Linguistic distances; Mutual intelligibility; Receptive bilingualism; Semicommunication

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249142721     PISSN: 01434632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/jmmd511.0     Document Type: Article

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