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The role of dialect exposure in receptive multilingualism [PDF]

Applied Linguistics Review, 2014
Abstract Previous investigations of inter-Scandinavian intelligibility have shown that, in general, Norwegians are better at understanding the closely related languages Danish and Swedish than Danes and Swedes are at understanding Norwegian.
Charlotte Gooskens, Wilbert Heeringa
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Receptive multilingualism and second language acquisition: the language transition process of adopted children

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
In this paper a context where receptive multilingualism represents a communicative strategy of adjustment in a context of second language acquisition is discussed.
Alice Fiorentino
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Receptive multilingualism at school: an uneven playing ground?

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
ABSTRACTIn this article, we present an analysis of individual factors that influence how well a person can read and understand a text in an unfamiliar, but closely related language – the basis of the so-called teaching of intercomprehension. Our work analyzes these relations from two normally separate perspectives.
Amelia Lambelet, Pierre-Yves Mauron
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Call for papers: NJL Special Issue on Receptive Multilingualism: Multilingual Resources in the Service of Mutual Understanding

Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 2016
The second issue of Volume 40 (autumn 2017) of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics will be a special issue devoted to receptive multilingualism. The issue will be edited by Helka Riionheimo, Annekatrin Kaivapalu and Hanna-Ilona Härmävaara.
Helka Riionheimo, Annekatrin Kaivapalu
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Lingua receptiva (LaRa) – remarks on the quintessence of receptive multilingualism

International Journal of Bilingualism, 2011
This article introduces and defines the notion lingua receptiva (LaRa) as a mode of multilingual communication in which interactants employ a language and/or a language variety different from their partner’s and still understand each other without the help of any additional lingua franca.
Jochen Rehbein, Jan D. ten Thije, Anna Verschik   +2 more
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Receptive Multilingualism

, 2007
1. About the authors 2. Introduction (by Zeevaert, Ludger) 3. Part 1 Historical development of receptive multilingualism 4. 1. Receptive multilingualism in Northern Europe in the Middle Ages: A description of a scenario (by Braunmuller, Kurt) 5. 2. Linguistic diversity in Habsburg Austria as a model for modern European language policy (by Schjerve ...
Ludger Zeevaert, Jan ten Thije
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Receptive multilingualism and language understanding: Intelligibility of Azerbaijani to Turkish speakers

International Journal of Bilingualism, 2011
This article presents an investigation of language understanding within the framework of receptive multilingualism. That Turkish and Azerbaijani are closely related languages within the Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages leads to the assumption that Turkish and Azerbaijani are mutually intelligible languages. That is, speakers of these two different
Çiğdem Sağın-Şimşek, Wolf König
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Receptive multilingualism as a strategy for sharing mutual linguistic resources in the workplace in a Swiss context

International Journal of Multilingualism, 2013
The growing mobility of populations in important parts of the world has led, and is continuing to lead, to a lasting change from monolingual to multilingual teams of people working together, and the need for techniques for communication between people of different languages.
Georges Lüdi
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Lecture 12: Receptive Multilingualism

Twelve Lectures on Multilingualism, 2018
Jan D. ten Thije
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