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Download full textLadefoged, 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
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Direct linkBrancazio, Lawrence; Best, Catherine T.; Fowler, Carol A. – Language and Speech, 2006
We report four experiments designed to determine whether visual information affects judgments of acoustically-specified nonspeech events as well as speech events (the "McGurk effect"). Previous findings have shown only weak McGurk effects for nonspeech stimuli, whereas strong effects are found for consonants. We used click sounds that…
Descriptors: African Languages, Vowels, English, Comparative Analysis
