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Title: | Interlingual text comprehension: Linguistic and extralinguistic determinants | Contributor(s): | van Bezooijen, Renée (author); Gooskens, Charlotte (author) | Publication Date: | 2007 | Early Online Version: | 2007-06-05 | DOI: | 10.1075/hsm.6.17bez | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/30417 | Abstract: | The three West-Germanic languages Dutch, Frisian and Afrikaans are so closely related that they can be expected to be mutually intelligible to a large extent. In the present investigation, we established the intelligibility of written Afrikaans and Frisian by Dutch-speaking subjects. It appeared that it is easier for speakers of Dutch to understand Afrikaans than Frisian. In order to explain the results, attitudes as well as linguistic distances were assessed. There was no evidence of a relationship between attitude and intelligibility. Three linguistic distances did show a relationship with reading comprehension, namely the number of non-cognates, the transparency of the lexical relatedness of cognates, and the Levenshtein distance, which calculates the similarity between the written forms of words. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Receptive Multilingualism: Linguistic analyses, language policies and didactic concepts, p. 249-264 | Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company | Place of Publication: | Amsterdam, Netherlands | ISBN: | 9789027292476 9789027219268 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200408 Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) 200406 Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) 200310 Other European Languages |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture 950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture |
HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | WorldCat record: | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/804299945 | Series Name: | Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism | Series Number : | 6 | Editor: | Editor(s): Jan D ten Thije and Ludger Zeevaert |
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Appears in Collections: | Book Chapter School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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