Stenger, Irina
How reading intercomprehension works among Slavic languages with Cyrillic script
Köllner, Marisa; Ziai, Ramon (Ed.): ESSLLI 2016, pp. 30-42, 2016.
This article presents methods and results of a comparative analysis of Slavic languages using the Cyrillic alphabet with the purpose of investigating the orthographic intelligibility in reading intercomprehension. Although many studies have focused on linguistic as well as non-linguistic factors of mutual intelligibility among related languages, the understanding of the role of orthography in this process is quite limited. This study attempts to reveal the main mechanisms and the basic units of the orthographic code with focus on similarities between related languages, which leading to orthographic transparency and thus facilitating reading intercomprehension.