Predicting intelligibility and perceived linguistic distance by means of the levenshtein algorithm

Linguistics in the Netherlands

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-24

  Beijering, Karin ^a   Gooskens, Charlotte ^a   Heeringa, Wilbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b KNAW   (Netherlands)

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EID: 77956348194     PISSN: 09297332     EISSN: 15699919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/avt.25.05bei     Document Type: Article

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