Research has shown that cognates facilitate vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension for language learners (when compared to non-cognate words). In Experiment 1, orthographic transparency ratings for 440 English-Spanish cognate nouns drawn from the Paivio et al. imagery norms were collected from...
When reading sentences, recognition of switch words was facilitated after cognate nouns, only when switching from the non-dominant to the dominant language (Witteman, 2008). This asymmetry implies that activation of the non-target language is larger when cognates are presented in the non-dominant ...
conductir and traducir are -ir verbs, so they differ in their nos- and vos- forms. comparatives, superlatives comparisons of inequality are formed by placingmasormenosbefore adverbs, adjectives, or nouns, andqueafter them. ...