21.3889, Calls: Phonetics/Psycholinguistics/Sociolinguistics/Linguistics (Jrnl)

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Subject: 21.3889, Calls: Phonetics/Psycholinguistics/Sociolinguistics/Linguistics (Jrnl)

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Date: 04-Oct-2010
From: Anja Schüppert < a.schueppert at rug.nl >
Subject: Linguistics
 

	
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Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:50:25
From: Anja Schüppert [a.schueppert at rug.nl]
Subject: Linguistics

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Full Title: Linguistics 


Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2010 

Experimental Approaches to Mutual Intelligibility of Closely Related 
Languages
Guest Editors: Charlotte Gooskens, Nanna Haug Hilton, Anja Schüppert

Communication across language borders mostly takes place in lingua 
francas. In some regions, however, it is more likely that people will 
communicate with each other using their native languages. Speakers 
communicating this way are receptively bilingual, meaning that they can 
understand closely related languages without being able to speak them 
actively. Some well-documented language areas in Europe where receptive 
multilingualism has been documented include Scandinavia, the Iberian 
Peninsula, Finland/Estonia, Slovakia/Czech Republic and the Benelux. 
Outside Europe, among others, mutual intelligibility between Afrikaans and 
Dutch, Hindi and Urdu and Kalabari and Nembe (Nigeria) have been 
investigated and numerous other cases of receptive multilingualism are 
known. 
Linguistic as well as non-linguistic factors determine the success and the 
fluency of mutual intelligibility. Speakers of languages with a large phonetic 
distance, for example, frequently encounter more problems when 
communicating in their native languages than speakers whose native 
languages are phonetically closer. Furthermore, prosodic, syntactic, and 
lexical differences have an impact on the degree of receptive multilingualism 
of the listeners. Non-linguistic factors that may play a role are attitudes 
towards the neighbouring language or culture, or the amount of contact. The 
existence of negative attitudes or social stigmas attached to languages is 
often seen as a potential obstruction for successful intergroup communication 
while previous contact with a language enhances the chance of successful 
communication. 
For some language pairs, consistent asymmetries in mutual intelligibility have 
been reported. These asymmetries have often been explained by means of 
non-linguistic determinants. However, there is evidence that also linguistic 
factors may cause asymmetrical intelligibility.

We invite papers for a special issue in Linguistics employing experimental 
methods to investigate receptive multilingualism from all language families. 
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following topics: 
-	linguistic determinants of mutual intelligibility (such as prosodic, 
phonetic, morpho-syntactic and lexical features)
-	non-linguistic determinants of mutual intelligibility (such as language 
attitudes and language contact)
-	asymmetries in mutual intelligibility
-	new methods for measuring intelligibility

Abstracts should be approximately 700 words and may be submitted by 15 
November 2010 to a.schueppert at rug.nl.




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