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Cross-language distributions of high frequency and phonetically similar cognates. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The coinciding form and meaning similarity of cognates, e.g. 'flamme' (French), 'Flamme' (German), 'vlam' (Dutch), meaning 'flame' in English, facilitates learning of additional languages.
Job Schepens +3 more
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THE ORIGINS OF STEMS OF STANDARD ESTONIAN – A STATISTICAL OVERVIEW; pp. 273–300 [PDF]
Trames, 2013 The lexicon of literary Estonian is analysed by layers of inherited stems and loan words according to the data from the Estonian Etymological Dictionary (2012).
Sven-Erik Soosaar
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Frontiers 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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The more similar the better? Factors in learning cognates, false cognates and non-cognate words
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017 In this study we explored factors that determine the knowledge of L2 words with orthographic neighbours in L1 (cognates and false cognates). We asked 150 Polish learners of English to translate 105 English non-cognate words, cognates, and false-cognates into Polish, and to assess the confidence of each translation.
Agnieszka Otwinowska, Jakub M. Szewczyk
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Automatic Identification and Production of Related Words for Historical Linguistics
Computational 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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Uralic vs Indo-European contacts: borrowing vs local emergence vs chance resemblances
Eesti 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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Spanish Grammatical Gender Interference in Papiamentu
Languages, 2019 The aim of this study is to determine whether Spanish-like gender agreement causes interference in speakers of Papiamentu (a Western Romance-lexified creole language) who also speak Spanish. Papiamentu and Spanish are highly cognate languages in terms of
Jorge R. Valdés Kroff +2 more
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Danish-English Bilinguals’ Cognate Processing in L1 and L2 Visual Lexical Decision Tasks
Languages, 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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ANNA: A Dictionary with a Name (and what Lies Behind it)
Lexikos, 2021 In 2011 the Groot Woordenboek Afrikaans en Nederlands (Large Dictionary Afrikaans and Dutch), commonly known as ANNA, appeared. Contrary to so-called difference dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries of narrowly related languages which describe only ...
W. Martin
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Cogent Arts & HumanitiesAutochthonous Asian languages of the Austronesian family, such as Filipino, Malay, and Indonesians share true and false cognates, sometimes leading to communication breakdowns.
Charles Andre F. Nieves +5 more
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