Title: Predicting mutual intelligibility of Chinese dialects from multiple objective linguistic distance measures
Abstract: Abstract This paper predicts the mutual intelligibility of 15 Chinese dialects from multiple objective distance measures. Empirical mutual intelligibility measures were obtained from functional intelligibility tests at the sentence level from 15 listeners for each of 15 Chinese dialects. We computed various proximity measures on the basis of shared phonemes and tones in the sound inventories of the 15 dialects. Next, Levenshtein (string-edit) distance measures were computed on the 764 common syllabic units (
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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