Abstract

The West Slavic languages are close enough for their speakers to use their mother tongues when communicating with each other. In 1966, Einar Haugen referred to this type of communication as ‘semicommunication’. To this date, research into the mutual intelligibility of the semicommunication of West Slavic languages has been conducted exclusively by sociolinguistic methods. The presented paper, therefore, uses the mathematical-linguistic methods proposed by Moberg, Gooskens, Nerbonne, and Vaillette [Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006: Selected papers from the 17th CLIN Meeting, p. 51–66 (2007)] to measure the mutual intelligibility of semicommunication. These methods are based on calculating the conditional entropy. The calculations are realized on the phonetic and graphemic planes of Czech, Slovak, and Polish. Conditional entropies were the lowest between Czech and Slovak. Between both the languages and Polish they were much higher. The asymmetry of the mutual intelligibility was confirmed for every studied relationship. Its extent was varied for each. The differences between content and function words, and various styles of material were also explored. The measurements in this research proved, in agreement with Moberg et al., that conditional entropy correlates with mutual intelligibility. The general conclusions mostly confirm the sociolinguistic conclusions. In many cases, the conclusions have been refined and supplemented.

摘要

西斯拉夫的语言非常接近，以使讲者在彼此交流时能使用其母语。1966年，Einar Haugen将此通信称为“半通信”。迄今为止，仅通过社会语言学方法对西斯拉夫语言的半交流的相互可理解性进行了研究。因此，本论文使用了Moberg，Gooskens，Nerbonne和Vaillette提出的数学语言方法[2006年荷兰的计算语言学：第17届CLIN会议的论文选集，第1页。51-66（2007）]来衡量半通信的相互可理解性。这些方法基于计算条件熵。计算是在捷克语，斯洛伐克语和波兰语的语音和字素平面上实现的。在捷克和斯洛伐克之间，条件熵最低。在这两种语言和波兰语之间，它们的水平更高。对于每个研究的关系，相互可理解性都是不对称的。每个人的程度各不相同。还探讨了内容和功能词之间的差异以及各种样式的材料。与Moberg等人一致，这项研究中的测量证明了条件熵与相互可懂度相关。一般结论大部分证实了社会语言学的结论。在许多情况下，结论已得到完善和补充。还探讨了内容和功能词之间的差异以及各种样式的材料。与Moberg等人一致，这项研究中的测量证明了条件熵与相互可懂度相关。一般结论大部分证实了社会语言学的结论。在许多情况下，结论已得到完善和补充。还探讨了内容和功能词之间的差异以及各种样式的材料。与Moberg等人一致，这项研究中的测量证明了条件熵与相互可懂度相关。一般结论大部分证实了社会语言学的结论。在许多情况下，结论已得到完善和补充。