Why are some languages confused for others? Investigating data from the Great Language Game.
In this paper we explore the results of a large-scale online game called 'the Great Language Game', in which people listen to an audio speech sample and make a forced-choice guess about the identity of the language from 2 or more alternatives. The data include 15 million guesses from 400 a...
Main Authors: | Hedvig Skirgård, Seán G Roberts, Lars Yencken |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5381764?pdf=render |
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