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title = "Native Language Cognate Effects on Second Language Lexical Choice",
author = "Rabinovich, Ella and
Tsvetkov, Yulia and
Wintner, Shuly",
editor = "Lee, Lillian and
Johnson, Mark and
Toutanova, Kristina and
Roark, Brian",
journal = "Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
volume = "6",
year = "2018",
address = "Cambridge, MA",
publisher = "MIT Press",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/Q18-1024",
doi = "10.1162/tacl_a_00024",
pages = "329--342",
abstract = "We present a computational analysis of cognate effects on the spontaneous linguistic productions of advanced non-native speakers. Introducing a large corpus of highly competent non-native English speakers, and using a set of carefully selected lexical items, we show that the lexical choices of non-natives are affected by cognates in their native language. This effect is so powerful that we are able to reconstruct the phylogenetic language tree of the Indo-European language family solely from the frequencies of specific lexical items in the English of authors with various native languages. We quantitatively analyze non-native lexical choice, highlighting cognate facilitation as one of the important phenomena shaping the language of non-native speakers.",
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%T Native Language Cognate Effects on Second Language Lexical Choice
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%D 2018
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%X We present a computational analysis of cognate effects on the spontaneous linguistic productions of advanced non-native speakers. Introducing a large corpus of highly competent non-native English speakers, and using a set of carefully selected lexical items, we show that the lexical choices of non-natives are affected by cognates in their native language. This effect is so powerful that we are able to reconstruct the phylogenetic language tree of the Indo-European language family solely from the frequencies of specific lexical items in the English of authors with various native languages. We quantitatively analyze non-native lexical choice, highlighting cognate facilitation as one of the important phenomena shaping the language of non-native speakers.
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Markdown (Informal)
[Native Language Cognate Effects on Second Language Lexical Choice](https://aclanthology.org/Q18-1024) (Rabinovich et al., TACL 2018)
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