Essays about: "interlingual homographs"

Found 1 essay containing the words interlingual homographs.

  1. 1. Exploring the effect of stimulus list composition on the Cognate Facilitation Effect in bilingual lexical decision : A study of Danish-Swedish bilinguals

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet

    Author : Revekka Christina Anagnostopoulou; [2022]
    Keywords : Cognate facilitation effect; cognates; interlingual homographs; stimulus list composition; BIA ; Age of Acquisition; lexical decision; bilingualism;

    Abstract : Cognate words have a shared orthographic and semantic representation across languages: kniv (‘knife’) in Danish means the same as kniv in Swedish. Their shared form and meaning give cognates a special status in the bilingual mental lexicon and there is robust evidence that because of this special status they are processed faster than non-cognate words. READ MORE