How to Distinguish Languages and Dialects
The terms “language” and “dialect” are ingrained, but linguists nevertheless tend to agree that it is impossible to apply a non-arbitrary distinction such that two speech varieties can be identified as either distinct languages or two dialects of one and the same language. A database of lexical info...
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| Language: | English |
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The MIT Press
2020-01-01
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| Series: | Computational Linguistics |
| Online Access: | https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli_a_00366 |