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dc.contributor.authorAntón, Eneko
dc.contributor.authorDunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-11T11:41:51Z
dc.date.available2022-01-11T11:41:51Z
dc.date.issued2020-07-29
dc.description.abstractThe effects of cognate synonymy in L2 word learning are explored. Participants learned the names of well-known concrete concepts in a new fictional language following a picture-word association paradigm. Half of the concepts (set A) had two possible translations in the new language (i.e., both words were synonyms): one was a cognate in participants’ L1 and the other one was not. The other half of the concepts (set B) had only one possible translation in the new language, a non-cognate word. After learning the new words, participants’ memory was tested in a picture-word matching task and a translation recognition task. In line with previous findings, our results clearly indicate that cognates are much easier to learn, as we found that the cognate translation was remembered much better than both its non-cognate synonym and the non-cognate from set B. Our results also seem to suggest that non-cognates without cognate synonyms (set B) are better learned than non-cognates with cognate synonyms (set A). This suggests that, at early stages of L2 acquisition, learning a cognate would produce a poorer acquisition of its non-cognate synonym, as compared to a solely learned non-cognate. These results are discussed in the light of different theories and models of bilingual mental lexiconen_US
dc.identifier.citationAntón, Dunabeitia Landaburu JA. Better to Be Alone than in Bad Company: Cognate Synonyms Impair Word Learning. Behavioral Sciences. 2020;10(8)en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1891659
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/bs10080123
dc.identifier.issn2076-328X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/23663
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.relation.journalBehavioral Sciences
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2020 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleBetter to Be Alone than in Bad Company: Cognate Synonyms Impair Word Learningen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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