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Publication details [#60234]

Heuven, Vincent J. and Chaoju Tang. 2015. Predicting mutual intelligibility of Chinese dialects from multiple objective linguistic distance measures. Linguistics 53 (2) : 285–312.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialectology | evaluation | intelligibility | linguistic convergence | noun

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This article portends the mutual intelligibility of 15 Chinese dialects via diverse objective distance measures. The best single predictor is the number of shared cognates. A fair prediction is obtained by simply including the lexical frequency of shared finals (syllable rhymes).