Linguistic distance: a quantitative measure of the distance between english and other languages

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Linguistic distance: a quantitative measure of the distance between english and other languages

This paper develops a scalar or quantitative measure of the ‘distance’ between English and a myriad of other (non-native American) languages. This measure is based on the difficulty Americans have learning other languages. The linguistic distance measure is then used in an analysis of the determi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Chiswick, B., Miller, Paul
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Routledge 2005
Subjects:	immigrants linguistic distance language proficiency
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44965

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