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Distributions of cognates in Europe as based on Levenshtein distance
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Researchers on bilingual processing can benefit from computational tools developed in artificial intelligence. We show that a normalized Levenshtein distance function can efficiently and reliably simulate bilingual orthographic similarity ratings. Orthographic similarity distributions of cognates and non-cognates were identified across pairs of six European languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch. Semantic equivalence was determined using the conceptual structure of a translation database. By using a similarity threshold, large numbers of cognates could be selected that nearly completely included the stimulus materials of experimental studies. The identified numbers of form-similar and identical cognates correlated highly with branch lengths of phylogenetic language family trees, supporting the usefulness of the new measure for cross-language comparison. The normalized Levenshtein distance function can be considered as a new formal model of cross-language orthographic similarity.
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- SCHEPENS, J., DIJKSTRA, T., & GROOTJEN, F.
- Venue
- Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
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- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2011-08-11
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 157-166
- ISSN
- 1366-7289 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-1841
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- W2153599831
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- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 6.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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