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The Measurement of Cross-Language Communication.
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Ladefoged, Peter; And Others – 1968
Of the approximately 40 languages in Uganda, some are very similar to one another and may be to some extent mutually intelligible. Because no one knows how to measure degrees of mutual intelligibility, the authors are attempting to establish reliable techniques which would be not only of practical value for the study of language problems in…
Descriptors: African Languages, Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Data Analysis