In a dialect continuum across the Iberian Peninsula, which consequence follows if a speaker from Lisbon attempts to communicate with someone from a remote village in the Pyrenees?

A)Immediate communicative breakdown occurs abruptly

B)Lexical interference increases phonetic adaptation

C)Syntactic alignment spontaneously enables understanding

D)Gradual mutual intelligibility decreases across isoglosses✓

💡 Explanation

Mutual intelligibility decreases gradually, rather than abruptly, because dialect continua are defined by a transition zone. The distance and accumulated linguistic differences mean that the speakers on opposite ends struggle, therefore D is correct, rather than immediate breakdown.

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In a dialect continuum across the Iberian Peninsula, which consequence follows if a speaker from Lisbon attempts to communicate with someone from a remote village in the Pyrenees?

💡 Explanation

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