Mutual intelligibility and similarity of Chinese dialects

Mutual intelligibility of Chinese dialects tested functionally

Mutual intelligibility of Chinese dialects: Predicting cross-dialect word intelligibility from lexical and phonological similarity

This paper aims to predict mutual intelligibility (defined here as cross-dialectal word recognition) between 15 Chinese dialects from lexical and phonological distance measures. Distances were measured on the stimulus materials used in the experiment. Their predictive power was compared with earlier similar distance measures based on large word lists. Predictors based on just the stimulus mater...

Tone as a Predictor of Mutual Intelligibility of Chinese Dialects

This paper attempts to establish the importance of differences in the tone inventories for the mutual intelligibility of 15 Chinese dialects. Tone influence for mutual intelligibility was tested in two studies. In the first study mutual intelligibility was measured through opinion testing. The fable “The North Wind and the Sun” was read by one male speaker in each of 15 Chinese dialects with me...

The similarity and Mutual Intelligibility between Amharic and Tigrigna Varieties

The present study has examined the similarity and the mutual intelligibility between Amharic and two Tigrigna varities using three tools; namely Levenshtein distance, intelligibility test and questionnaires. The study has shown that both Tigrigna varieties have almost equal phonetic and lexical distances from Amharic. The study also indicated that Amharic speakers understand less than 50% of th...

ideology and dubbing: domestication of dialects

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