Is spoken Danish less intelligible than Swedish?

Speech Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 1022-1037

  Gooskens, Charlotte ^a   Van Heuven, Vincent J ^b   Van Bezooijen, Renée ^a   Pacilly, Jos J A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Babble noise; Cognates; Danish; Map tasks; Mutual intelligibility; Semantically unpredictable sentences; Swedish

Indexed keywords

BABBLE NOISE; COGNATES; DANISH; MAP TASKS; MUTUAL INTELLIGIBILITY; SEMANTICALLY UNPREDICTABLE SENTENCES; SWEDISH;

EID: 78649327136     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.06.005     Document Type: Article

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