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 --
Focused language instruction provided infor mation on cognates, word structure, g rammatical function, lexical cohesion and structural redundancy.
However, not all cognates exhibit a one-to-one equivalence at all linguistic levels.
Pictures were named in each language and were either cognates or non-cognates.
Fewer such incidents are reported when bilinguals are producing familiar cognates and proper names.
The results of this study were straightforward: no facilitation effects arose for interlingual homographs relative to controls, while cognates were facilitated.
With homographic cognates, no such interference occurs, because only one semantic representation is activated.
The second of these was not very difficult, because, in general, the characters used were all cross-language cognates (or very close to being cognates).
Participants remained silent less often on concrete words than on abstract words, and fewer omissions were observed on cognates than on noncognates.
