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...

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Main Authors: Hedvig Skirgård, Seán G Roberts, Lars Yencken
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5381764?pdf=render