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The Cognate Boost: A Study of Picture Naming across Proficiency Levels with L2 Learners of Russian.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the "cognate boost" in Russian. Based on the Revised Hierarchical Model of bilingual memory and the theory of nonselective language storage in bilinguals, it was assumed that cognates would facilitate the performance of L1 English learners of L2 Russian i...

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Published in:Journal of Slavic Linguistics Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 285 - 312
Main Author: White, A. Kate
Format: Article
Published: Indiana University, Slavic Department Summer/Fall2015
Subjects:
Language ability
Cognate words
Russians
Bilingualism
Language acquisition
English language
Russian language
Education
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