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Mandarin and Cantonese speakers can understand each other in speech.
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INSUFFICIENT LEANING
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Is it true that Mandarin and Cantonese speakers can understand each other in speech?
Unclear. Several sources indicate Mandarin and Cantonese differ substantially in vocabulary and phonology, and that Mandarin speakers must learn Cantonese as a second language, which partially undercuts the claim that the two are mutually intelligible in speech. No source directly tests or states mutual intelligibility between the two varieties.
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Cantonese - Wikipedia. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese
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Wikipedia: Written Cantonese. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Cantonese
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Luo, J., Li, V. G., & Mok, P. P. K. (2019). The Perception of Cantonese Vowel Length Contrast by Mandarin Speakers. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830919879471
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Acoustic Analyses of L1 and L2 Vowel Interactions in Mandarin–Cantonese Late Bilinguals. (2024). doi.org. https://doi.org/10.3390/acoustics6020030
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