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The lifespan development of cognate guessing skills in an unknown related language

Vanhove, Jan ; Berthele, Raphael

In: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 2015, vol. 53, no. 1, p. 1-38

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The lifespan development of cognate guessing skills in an unknown related language

Vanhove, Jan ; Berthele, Raphael

In: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 2015, vol. 53, no. 1, p. 1-38

This study investigates the lifespan development of the ability to correctly guess the meaning of foreign-language words with known translation-equivalent cognates. It also aims to identify the cognitive and linguistic factors driving this development. To this end, 159 German-speaking Swiss participants aged 10 to 86 were asked to translate 45 written and 45 spoken isolated Swedish words with...