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Dialect intelligibility testing

Index of SIL publications on Dialect intelligibility testing listed by country.

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General works

• Berger, R. A. 1999. "Identification of dialectal distinctions."
• Casad, Eugene H. 1997. "Language assessment tools: Uses and limitations."
• Casad, Eugene H. 1997. Review of: Language test construction and evaluation, by J. Charles Alderson, Caroline Clapham and Dianne Wall.
• Casad, Eugene H., editor. 1992. Windows on bilingualism.  
• Grimes, Barbara F. 1988. "Why test intelligibility?."
• Grimes, Barbara F. 1994. "Validity and reliability in language survey testing."
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1988. "Interpreting sample variation in intelligibility tests."
• Milliken, Margaret E. and Stuart R. Milliken. 1996. "System relationships in assessing dialect intelligibility."
• O’Leary, Clare F. 1994. "The role of recorded text tests in intelligibility assessment and language program decisions."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Cameroon

• Anderson, Heidi. 2005. "Intelligibility testing (RTT) between Mendankwe and Nkwen."  

Congo

• Phillips, John. 1992. Developing a sentence repetition test to study Lingala bilingualism.

Côte d’Ivoire

• Bearth, Thomas. 1980. "Mésure du degré d’intelligibilité entre dialectes."
• Maire, John and Peter Thalmann. 1980. Enquête dialectale kroumen.

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Boone, Douglas W. and Kenneth S. Sawka. 1995. "Notes on an experiment in intelligibility testing in Mayogo, Bangba, and Mündü."

Guinea

• Pioneer Bible Translatorss. 2003. "Maninka Sentence Repetition Test survey report: an investigation into the degree of bilingualism proficiency between Maninka of Kankan and Malinké, Kuranko, Sankaran, konyanka as well as other dialects of Maninka."  

Niger

• Jarrett, Kevin A. 1988. "Dialectes et alphabétisation dans les écoles: Une étude explorative de l’intercompréhension des différents dialectes kanuri du Niger."

Senegal

• Williams, Gordon and Sara Williams. 1993. Enquête sociolinguistique sur les langues Cangin de la région de Thiès au Sénégal.
• Williams, Gordon. 1994. "Intelligibility and language boundaries among the Cangin peoples of Senegal."

Americas

Brazil

• Anonby, Stan and Sandy Anonby. 2007. "A report on three Arauan speech varieties (Jamamadi, Jarawara, and Banawá) of the Amazon."  

Mexico

• Bradley, C. Henry. 1969. "Metodología y práctica para determinar afinidades dialectales."
• Casad, Eugene H. 1974. Dialect intelligibility testing.  
• Kirk, Paul L. 1970. "Dialect intelligibility testing: The Mazatec study."

United States

• Milliken, Margaret E. 1988. Phonological divergence and intelligibility: a case study of English and Scots.

Asia

China

• Milliken, Margaret E. 1994. "Finding the centers of communication networks."
• Milliken, Stuart R. 1994. "Text frequency statistics in Zhuang."
• Milliken, Stuart R., editor. 1994. SIL occasional papers on the minority languages of China.

Indonesia

• Anderbeck, Karl Ronald. 2008. Malay dialects of the Batanghari river basin (Jambi, Sumatra).  

Malaysia

• Banker, Elizabeth. 1984. "The west coast Bajau language."
• Banker, John E. 1984. "The Idaʼan language."
• Banker, John E. 1984. "The Illanun language."
• Banker, John E. 1984. "The Lotud language."
• Banker, John E. and Elizabeth Banker. 1984. "The Kadazan/Dusun language."
• Dunn, Phyllis A. 1984. "The Bisaya language."
• Dunn, Phyllis A. 1984. "The Papar language."
• Dunn, Phyllis A. 1984. "The Tatana language."
• Hurlbut, Hope M. and Inka Pekkanen. 1982. "Dialect comparison and intelligibility testing in the Upper Kinabatangan River area (Sabah)."
• King, Julie K. 1979. "Dialect comparison and bilingualism: The Kudat division."
• King, Julie K. 1984. "The Dumpas language."
• King, Julie K. 1984. "The Paitanic language family."
• King, Julie K. 1984. "The Rungus language."
• King, Julie K. and John Wayne King, editors. 1984. Languages of Sabah: a survey report.
• Kroeger, Paul R. 1986. "Intelligibility patterns in Sabah and the problem of prediction."
• Kroeger, Paul R. 1991. "National language comprehension in rural Sabah."
• Miller, Carolyn P. 1984. "Introduction."
• Miller, Carolyn P. 1987. "Assessing levels of complexity in Kadazan texts."
• Moody, David C. 1984. "The Lundayeh language."
• Moody, David C. 1984. "The Malayic language family."
• Moody, David C. 1984. "The Suluk (Tausug) language."
• Spitzack, John A. 1984. "The Eastern Kadazan language."
• Spitzack, John A. 1984. "The Kuijau language."
• Spitzack, John A. 1984. "The Murutic language family."
• Walton, Janice R. and David C. Moody. 1984. "The east coast Bajau languages."

Pakistan

• Backstrom, Peter C. 1992. "Wakhi."

Philippines

• Quakenbush, J. Stephen. 1991. "Surveying language proficiency."