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What are cognates?

open access: yesPapers in Historical Phonology, 2022
The popularity of computational methods in historical linguistics has primarily been motivated by mere access to the new methods themselves, rather than by looking for tools to solve problems. Investigators have looked for problems with which to showcase
Marieke Meelen   +2 more
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Cognate facilitation effects in bilingual children of varying language dominance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
A widely accepted theory is that bilinguals activate both of their languages regardless of which is in use. Though there is abundant research on this phenomenon in bilingual adults, less research has focused on bilingual children.
Ramirez, Mayra Chantal
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How L1 loanwords can create a false sense of familiarity with L2 vocabulary meaning and usage

open access: yesVocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2013
Almost 50% of high-frequency English (L2) words have Japanese cognates in the form of loanwords, and depending on cognate type these are generally considered to be an excellent way to promote vocabulary retention.
Marie-Emilie Masson
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Neural Evidence of Language Membership Control in Bilingual Word Recognition: An fMRI Study of Cognate Processing in Chinese–Japanese Bilinguals

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
This study aims to examine the neural mechanisms of resolving response competition during bilingual word recognition in the context of language intermixing.
Ming-Che Hsieh   +5 more
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Mixing the stimulus list in bilingual lexical decision turns cognate facilitation effects into mirrored inhibition effects

open access: yes, 2020
To test the BIA+ and Multilink models’ accounts of how bilinguals process words with different degrees of cross-linguistic orthographic and semantic overlap, we conducted two experiments manipulating stimulus list composition.
Dijkstra, T.   +3 more
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Bilingual word recognition in a sentence context [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article provides an overview of bilingualism research on visual word recognition in isolation and in sentence context. Many studies investigating the processing of words out-of-context have shown that lexical representations from both languages are ...
Duyck, Wouter   +2 more
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Automatic Identification and Production of Related Words for Historical Linguistics

open access: yesComputational Linguistics, 2020
Language change across space and time is one of the main concerns in historical linguistics. In this article, we develop tools to assist researchers and domain experts in the study of language evolution.
Ciobanu, Alina Maria, Dinu, Liviu P.
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Danish-English Bilinguals’ Cognate Processing in L1 and L2 Visual Lexical Decision Tasks

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
Previous research and the BIA+ model support the hypothesis of language nonselective access during bilingual word recognition with language-ambiguous words like cognates organized in two distinct lexical representations.
Simone Møller Krogh
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Analysing lexical richness in French learner language: what frequency lists and teacher judgements can tell us about basic and advanced words [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
We show how teacher judgements can be used to assess the quality of vocabulary used by L2 learners of ...
Cobb   +9 more
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Uralic vs Indo-European contacts: borrowing vs local emergence vs chance resemblances

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014
In this article I shall review the field of studies: “Uralic vs Indo-European contacts”. I shall report the thesis of what can be called the “old” and the “new” school, respectively, dealing with this topic. According to the old school, the contacts took
Angela Marcantonio
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