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Title: | Lexical and orthographic distances between Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages and their relationship to geographic distance | Contributor(s): | Gooskens, Charlotte (author); van Bezooijen, Renee (author) | Publication Date: | 2013 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20708 | Abstract: | When reading texts of different but closely related languages, intelligibility is determined among others by the number of words which are cognates of words in the reader's language, and orthographic differences. Orthographic differences partly reflect pronunciation differences and therefore are partly a linguistic level. Dialectometric studies in particular showed that different linguistic levels may correlate with each other and with geography. This may raise the question of whether both lexical distance and orthographic distance need to be included in a model which explains written intelligibility, or whether both factors can even be replaced by geographic distance. We study the relationship between lexical and orthographic variation among Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages to each other and to geography. The lexical distance is the percentage of non-cognate pairs, and the orthographic distance is the average of the Levenshtein distances of the cognate pairs. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Phonetics in Europe: Perception and Production, p. 99-137 | Publisher: | Peter Lang GmbH | Place of Publication: | Frankfurt, Germany | ISBN: | 9783653035179 9783631634400 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200310 Other European Languages | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 470319 Other European languages | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130201 Communication across languages and culture | HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/209416210 | Editor: | Editor(s): Charlotte Gooskens & Renee van Bezooijen |
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Appears in Collections: | Book Chapter School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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