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Yoder, Zachariah – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
The recorded text test (RTT) is commonly used to test dialect intelligibility, often to inform language development decisions. More than 25 papers using the RTT method were published on www.sil.org/silesr from January 2009 to March 2013. As introduced by Casad [1974. "Dialect Intelligibility Testing." Summer Institute of Linguistics…
Descriptors: Scores, Language Minorities, Language Variation, Mutual Intelligibility
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Salami, L. Oladipo – Language in Society, 1991
Reports on the application of the concept of social network to the process of language usage among Yoruba-speaking city dwellers in Ile-Ife, Southwestern Nigeria. The study focuses on phonetic/phonological variation within common spoken Yoruba. (41 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Variation, Phonology, Social Networks