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dc.contributor.authorvan Heuven, Vincent Jen
dc.contributor.authorGooskens, Charlotteen
dc.contributor.authorvan Bezooijen, Reneeen
local.source.editorEditor(s): Navracsics Judit, Batyi Szilviaen
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-19T13:54:00Z-
dc.date.issued2015-
dc.identifier.citationElso- Es Masodik Nyelv: Interdiszciplinaris Megkozelitesek, p. 127-145en
dc.identifier.isbn9789634090250en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21503-
dc.description.abstractThe Wikipedia lists 91 indigenous languages that are spoken in Europe today. Forty-two are currently being used by more than one million speakers. Only 24 are recognized as official and working languages of the European Union. Most of these belong to one of three major families within the Indo-European phylum, i.e. Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages. Languages and language varieties (dialects) within one family have descended from a common ancestor language which has become more diversified over the past centuries through innovations. Generally, the greater the geographic distance and historical depth (how long ago did language A undergo an innovation that language B was not part of), the less the two languages resemble one another, and - it is commonly held - the more difficult it will be for speakers of language A to be understood by listeners of language B and vice versa. A working hypothesis would then be that the longer ago two related languages split apart, the less they resemble one another and the smaller their mutual intelligibility. We are involved in a fairly large research project that was set up to test these hypotheses. The basic idea was to first measure the level of mutual intelligibility between all pairs of languages within a family, them compute the degree of structural linguistic similarity between the members, and try to predict the observed level of intelligibility from the linguistic distances measured. The historic component is seen as a subsidiary issue: we will not try to predict mutual intelligibility between languages from the distance between them in the traditional linguistic family tree (cladistic distance) but simply check to what extent the linguistic relatedness between two languages corresponds with their mutual intelligibility and/or measured linguistic distance.en
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dc.publisherTinta Konyvkiadoen
dc.relation.ispartofElso- Es Masodik Nyelv: Interdiszciplinaris Megkozeliteseken
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPszicholingvisztikai tanulmanyok [Studies in Psycholinguistics]en
dc.relation.isversionof1en
dc.titleIntroducing Micrela: Predicting mutual intelligibility between related languages in Europeen
dc.typeBook Chapteren
dc.subject.keywordsEuropean Languagesen
local.contributor.firstnameVincent Jen
local.contributor.firstnameCharlotteen
local.contributor.firstnameReneeen
local.subject.for2008200310 Other European Languagesen
local.subject.seo2008950201 Communication Across Languages and Cultureen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailcgoosken@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryB1en
local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20170323-113123en
local.publisher.placeBudapest, Hungaryen
local.identifier.totalchapters23en
local.format.startpage127en
local.format.endpage145en
local.series.issn1419-6603en
local.series.number6en
local.title.subtitlePredicting mutual intelligibility between related languages in Europeen
local.contributor.lastnamevan Heuvenen
local.contributor.lastnameGooskensen
local.contributor.lastnamevan Bezooijenen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:cgooskenen
local.booktitle.translatedFirst and Second Language: Interdisciplinary Approachesen
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:21694en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleIntroducing Micrelaen
local.output.categorydescriptionB1 Chapter in a Scholarly Booken
local.search.authorvan Heuven, Vincent Jen
local.search.authorGooskens, Charlotteen
local.search.authorvan Bezooijen, Reneeen
local.uneassociationUnknownen
local.year.published2015en
local.subject.for2020470319 Other European languagesen
local.subject.seo2020130201 Communication across languages and cultureen
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