Is Swedish more beautiful than Danish? Matched guise investigations with unknown languages

Is spoken Danish less intelligible than Swedish?

The most straightforward way to explain why Danes understand spoken Swedish relatively better than Swedes understand spoken Danish would be that spoken Danish is intrinsically a more difficult language to understand than spoken Swedish. We discuss circumstantial evidence suggesting that Danish is intrinsically poorly intelligible. We then report on a formal experiment in which we tested the int...

Is Danish an intrinsically more difficult language to understand than Swedish?

Swedish Is Beautiful, Danish Is Ugly? Investigating the Link between Language Attitudes and Spoken Word Recognition

This paper investigates the hypothesis that attitudes towards a lin­ guistic variety and intelligibility of that variety are linked. This is done by elicit­ ing language attitudes and word recognition scores in 154 Danish and Swedish schoolchildren and adolescents between 7 and 16 years. Language attitudes to­ wards the neighboring language are elicited by means of a matched­guise ex­ periment ...

MusiXTEX, even more beautiful than MusicTEXfor music typesetting

MusiXTEX is a new music typesetting package derived from MusicTEX, but it provides more beautiful scores than MusicTEX did. While MusicTEX was a single pass package, MusiXTEX is a three pass system: the rst pass performs a rough TEXing which reports the spacings of each music section, the second pass is a computation of the best note spacings, and the third one is the nal TEXing process. The be...

Export Vegetable Production in Kenya under the EurepGAP Standard: Is Large “More Beautiful” than Small?

This paper defi nes three types of typical certifi ed farms in Kenyan export production: smallholder farms, large-scale contracted farms, and exporter-owned farms. It assesses their economic performance, compares the fi nancial cost of compliance with the EurepGAP standard, and analyses transaction costs. Results show that larger farms are not generally performing more effi ciently compared to ...