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- The combination of differences in pronunciation and use of local words may make some English dialects almost unintelligible to speakers from other regions without any prior exposure.
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Sep 29, 2014 · Are there any mutually unintelligible English dialects? So far I've only been able to learn is that English is highly intelligible among its different dialects, but no actual statement that all dialect are mutually intelligible.
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Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication: "[W]hat allows us to refer to something called English as if it were a single, monolithic language? A standard answer to this question rests on the notion of mutual intelligibility. That is, even though native speakers of English vary in their use of the language, their various languages a...
Hans Henrich Hoch: "[The] distinction between language and dialect is based on the notion [of] 'mutual intelligibility': Dialects of the same language should be mutually intelligible, while different languages are not. This mutual intelligibility, in turn, would then be a reflection of the similarities between different varieties of speech. "Unfort...
Richard A. Hudson: "[A]nother problem regarding the use of mutual intelligibility as a criterion [for defining a language is] that it need not be reciprocal, since A and B need not have the same degree of motivation for understanding each other, nor need they have the same amount of previous experience of each other's varieties. Typically, it is ea...
Celie in The Color Purple:"Darlie trying to teach me how to talk. . . . Every time I say something the way I say it, she correct me until I say it some other way. Pretty soon it feel like I can't think. My mind run up on a thought, git confuse, run back and sort of lay down. . . . Look like to me only a fool would want you to talk in a way that fee...
Many spoken dialects may be mutually unintelligible, but the literary dialect unites them, and they all learn it as the language of education. Arabic is therefore one literary language, but many spoken dialects. What is the language and what is the dialect? Is Letzebuergesch a dialect of Standard German, or its own 'language'?
The combination of differences in pronunciation and use of local words may make some English dialects almost unintelligible to speakers from other regions without any prior exposure. The major native dialects of English are often divided by linguists into three general categories: the British Isles dialects, those of North America, and those of ...
256–262. Published: November 2020. PDF. Split View. Annotate. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. Chapter 20 treats the success of the criterion of mutual intelligibility since the 1950s, when American linguists interested in Amerindian tongues started to actively test this feature.
Jun 1, 2021 · Abstand languages may be definable by an intelligibility threshold between 70–75%. Abstract. In linguistics, a principled definition of what constitutes a ‘language’ in opposition to a ‘dialect’ has been notoriously elusive.
Aug 12, 2021 · 2 Phonetic Variation in Dialects; 3 Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects: Status and Variation; 4 Mutual Intelligibility; 5 Dialectology for Computational Linguists; Part II Methods and Resources; 6 Data Collection and Representation for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects; 7 Adaptation of Morphosyntactic Taggers