{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/native-language-cognate-effects-on-second","title":"Native Language Cognate Effects on Second Language Lexical Choice","arxiv_id":"1805.09590","date":"2018-05-24","proceeding":"TACL 2018 1","authors":["Ella Rabinovich","Yulia Tsvetkov","Shuly Wintner"],"abstract":"We present a computational analysis of cognate effects on the spontaneous\nlinguistic productions of advanced non-native speakers. Introducing a large\ncorpus of highly competent non-native English speakers, and using a set of\ncarefully selected lexical items, we show that the lexical choices of\nnon-natives are affected by cognates in their native language. This effect is\nso powerful that we are able to reconstruct the phylogenetic language tree of\nthe Indo-European language family solely from the frequencies of specific\nlexical items in the English of authors with various native languages. We\nquantitatively analyze non-native lexical choice, highlighting cognate\nfacilitation as one of the important phenomena shaping the language of\nnon-native speakers.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09590v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.09590v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"native-language-cognate-effects-on-second","repo_url":"https://github.com/ellarabi/reddit-l2","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}