The Measurement of Mutual Intelligibility between West-Slavic Languages
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/62690094:18470/19:50014602
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09296174.2018.1464546" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09296174.2018.1464546</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2018.1464546" target="_blank" >10.1080/09296174.2018.1464546</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Measurement of Mutual Intelligibility between West-Slavic Languages
Original language description
The West Slavic languages are close enough for their speakers to use their mother tongues when communicating with each other. Haugen (1966) referred to this type of communication as 'semicommunication'. Research into the mutual intelligibility of the semicommunication of West Slavic languages has been done exclusively by sociolinguistic methods so far. The present paper, therefore, uses the mathematical-linguistic methods proposed by Moberg, Gooskens, Nerbonne, and Vaillette (2007) to measure the mutual intelligibility of semicommunication. These methods are based on calculating the conditional entropy. The calculations are done on the phonetic and graphemic planes of Czech, Slovak, and Polish. Conditional entropies were the lowest between Czech and Slovak, whereas between both of these languages and Polish they were much higher. This asymmetry was confirmed for every studied relationship. However, its extent was varied for each. There were also demonstrated the differences between content and function words, and various styles of material. The measurements in this research proved, as had done Moberg et al. (2007) as well, that conditional entropy correlates with mutual intelligibility. The general conclusions mostly confirm the sociolinguistic conclusions. In many cases, however, these conclusions have been refined and supplemented.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of quantitative linguistic
ISSN
0929-6174
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Volume of the periodical
26
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
205-230
UT code for WoS article
000470675600002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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