Chinese “Dialects” and European “Languages”: A Comparison of Lexico-Phonetic and Syntactic Distances

In this article, we tested some specific claims made in the literature on relative distances among European languages and among Chinese dialects, suggesting that some language varieties within the Sinitic family traditionally called dialects are, in fact, more linguistically distant from one another...

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Main Authors: Chaoju Tang, Vincent J. van Heuven, Wilbert Heeringa, Charlotte Gooskens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-05-01
Series:Languages
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/10/6/127
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