1. Invent Yourself: Language Barriers
LaplaceWitches
Nanjing Foreign Language School

2. Invent Yourself: Language Barriers
2017 IYNT
Invent Yourself: Language Barriers
01. INITIAL THOUGHTS
1. Topic Review
LaplaceWitches
2. Key Words
02. THE EXPERIMENT
3. Introduction of the experiment
4. Basic Knowledge about linguistics
5. Analyzing and planning
6. Calculating phonetic and lexical differences
7. The Experiment

3. Topic Review
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Speakers of related but different languages can sometimes understand each other, without any prior international study. Propose an interesting study of such a mutual intelligibility. Investigate it experimentally for the pairs of dialects or languages of your choice. Introduce and determine quantitative parameters.
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4. Related but different languages or dialects.
Key Words
Related but different languages or dialects.
Without any prior international study.
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5. Introduction of the experiment
Three mainland Scandinavian languages
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Measure the mutual intelligibility of these languages
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6. Basic elements of linguistics
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Grammar
Vocabulary
Pronunciation
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7. Analyzing and planning
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Two factors
Contact
Difference
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8. Phonetic and lexical differences
Types of languages
Differences
Norwegian-Danish
phonetic
Norwegian-Swedish
lexical
Swedish-Danish
Phonetic and lexical
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9. The Experiment
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Listeners from different language departments of Beijing foreign studies University who study Danish, Norwegian, Swedish .
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10. Students who study Danish “Danish” From Denmark
The Experiment
Students who study Danish
“Danish” From Denmark
Students who study Swedish
“Swedish” From Sweden
Students who study Norwegian
“Norwegian” From Norway

11. Table One
An overview in given of the listeners and the languages that they were tested.

12. Chart of people participating in the test
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Norway 96 76
Sweden 62 28
Denmark 69 68
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13. A news item about environment protecting.
Task
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A news item about environment protecting.
Be translated from Norwegian into Danish and Swedish.
Open questions
2 points for completely correct, 1 point for partly correct, 0 point for incorrect.
Forming the intelligibility score.
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14. Clear Data of the Result
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Denmark 58 48
Norway 80 88
Sweden 24 82
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15. Mutual intelligibility is highest between Norwegians and Swedes.
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Mutual intelligibility is highest between Norwegians and Swedes.
Danish is hard for Swedes.
It is important to pay attention to geographical background of the listeners.
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16. Calculate the Phonetic differences
The Levenshtein distance.
gatorna gaderne
skuttar hopper
Based upon minimum number of symbols that need to be inserted, deleted or substituted in order to transform it correctly.
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17. Calculating Points Insertions and deletions 1 point,
Identical symbols 0 points,
Substitutions of a vowel by a vowel or of a consonant by a consonant
0.5 point,
Substitutions of a vowel by a consonant or of a consonant by a vowel
1 point,
Diacritics were joined with the preceding symbol, adding an extra 0.25 point.
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18. The largest differences are between Danish and Swedish.
Table Five
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The phonetic distance between the language of the Listeners and the test languages.
The largest differences are between Danish and Swedish.
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19. Table Five

20. Danish listeners have fewer difficulties with Swedish.
Conclusions
Swedish-speaking listeners have the greatest difficulties understanding Danish.
Danish listeners have fewer difficulties with Swedish.
Swedish-Norwegian mutual intelligibility is high
Correlations between intelligibility scores and linguistic distance showed that intelligibility can be predicted by phonetic distances.
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21. Refinements of the distance measurements. Include different varieties.
Further Discussion
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Refinements of the distance measurements.
Include different varieties.
More detailed analysis.
Contact and attitude factors.
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22. . Referances Build TORNADO MACHINE
Andersson, E. and Reuter, M. (1997) Finlandssvensk spra°kva°rd som minoritetsstrategi
[Fenno-Swedish language preservation as a minority strategy]. In S. Løland,
A.M. Gustafsson, K. Arnason and B. Lindgren. (eds) Spra°k i Norden (pp. 78_92).
Oslo: Novus.
Bø, I. (1978) Ungdom og naboland [Youth and Neighboring Country]. Stavanger:
Rogalandsforskning (rapport 4).
Bo¨ restam, U. (1987) Dansk-svensk spra°kgemenskap pa° undantag [Danish_Swedish Language
Community as a Special Case]. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet.
Braunmu¨ ller, K. and Zeevaert, L. (2001) Semikommunikation, rezeptive Mehrsprachigkeit
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