0 Cognate languages and words have the same origin, or are related and in some way similar:
1 a word that has the same origin as another word, or is related in some way to another word
In all but one case, the translation pairs they labeled cognates were rated higher than the pairs they labeled non-cognates.
In addition, the response lists for cognates had greater total overlap than did those for non-cognates.
Other advantages for cognates have been found in the translation priming literature.
The results of the experiment showed that cognates were recalled and recognized better than non-cognates.
There were three other words which cannot be called direct cognates, but nevertheless should be mentioned here.
Picture naming is faster for cognates than for noncognates in bilingual but not in monolingual individuals.
The interference for the homophones stands in contrast to the facilitation observed for cognates.
Participants remained silent less often on concrete words than on abstract words, and fewer omissions were observed on cognates than on noncognates.
