@article{TACL1403,
	author = {Rabinovich, Ella  and Tsvetkov, Yulia  and Wintner, Shuly },
	title = {Native Language Cognate Effects on Second Language Lexical Choice},
	journal = {Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
	volume = {6},
	year = {2018},
	keywords = {},
	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.},
	issn = {2307-387X},
	url = {https://www.transacl.org/ojs/index.php/tacl/article/view/1403},
	pages = {329--342}
}