Arabic-L:LING:Wants sources on measuring mutual intelligibility of dialects

[Dilworth Parkinson]

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Arabic-L: Thu 12 Sep 2013
Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu>
[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu]
[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to
listserv at byu.edu with first line reading:
           unsubscribe arabic-l                                      ]

-------------------------Directory------------------------------------

1) Subject: Wants sources on measuring mutual intelligibility of dialects

-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------
1)
Date: 12 Sep 2013
From: Rasha K. <lingrash at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Wants sources on measuring mutual intelligibility of dialects

Dear All,

I am trying to find any research work which objectively measured the mutual
intelligibility between the Arabic dialects.  It is very common to find
statements in research papers such as "the level of intelligibility between
neighbouring countries i.e. Levantine is much higher than between further
countries such as between Kuwait and Morocco" , but has anyone
scientifically measured the intelligibility either by using a lexical
corpus, listening comprehension tests or other research methods?

I would appreciate your input.
Rasha Soliman
University of Manchester

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
End of Arabic-L: 12 Sep 2013
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/arabic-l/attachments/20130913/4efbcdc9/attachment.htm>