World Englishes and Issues of Intelligibility

The Handbook of World Englishes

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 428-445

  Smith, Larry E ^a   Nelson, Cecil L ^b  

^a Christopher Smith and Associates LLC   (United States)

^b INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Indistinguishable; Intelligibility; Interpretability; Non native speakers; Proficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 55449128142     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470757598.ch24     Document Type: Chapter

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