Cross-language distributions of high frequency and phonetically similar cognates.

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. The cross-language frequency and similarity distributions of cognates v...

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Main Authors: Job Schepens, Ton Dijkstra, Franc Grootjen, Walter J B van Heuven
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3651159?pdf=render