Taking taxonomy seriously in linguistics: Intelligibility as a criterion of demarcation between languages and dialects

@article{Tamburelli2021TakingTS,
  title={Taking taxonomy seriously in linguistics: Intelligibility as a criterion of demarcation between languages and dialects},
  author={Marco Tamburelli},
  journal={Lingua},
  year={2021},
  volume={256},
  pages={103068}
}
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