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Web-based experiments in mediated receptive multilingualism

Published:2023-08 Issue:XXXVI Volume: Page:7-28
ISSN:2603-3402
Container-title:Papers of the Institute for Bulgarian Language “Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin”
language:bg
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Author:

Stenger Irina¹^ORCID,Avgustinova Tania¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Languages Science and Technology Saarland University

Abstract

The article focuses on phenomena of cross-lingual comprehension mediated by a bridge language. In a web-based experiment, German speaking subjects – without any previous knowledge of Bulgarian – translate written Bulgarian stimuli relying on some knowledge of Russian. We investigate the importance of the selected individual and linguistic factors for success in mediated receptive multilingualism. Proficiency in reading in Russian and orthographic distance between Russian and Bulgarian cognates are the most important predictors.

Publisher

Institute for Bulgarian Language Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Subject

General Medicine

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