Близость лингвистических объектов по их звуковой картине: проблема различения языка и диалекта на фонетическом уровне

Abstract

The article investigates the phono-typological closeness of linguistic objects by the Chi-square criterion. Any dialect or language is considered to be a linguistic object. The Chi-square distance is based on the typology of the structure of the speech sound chains in languages and dialects. The total of the speech sound chains comprises a phonetic picture of a language. The typological distances on the phonetic level between the linguistic objects have been built on the basis of threshold value of the TMB coefficient.