noncognate
- adjective
- /nɒnˈkɒɡneɪt/
- Specialized
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no cognado
- Results showed that participants were slightly less likely to answer cognate items correctly in both languages than noncognate items.
- noncognate items
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There are also a number of categories of noncognate lexical pairs that, when contrasted with cognates, would further clarify the nature of the cognate advantage.
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The "cognate advantage" was determined by subtracting the proportion of noncognate items answered correctly from the proportion of cognate items answered correctly.
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On noncognate items, the two groups had similar levels of accuracy.
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In language studies, noncognate words are those that do not share a common origin, such as the English 'father' and the Spanish 'padre'.
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Learning noncognate vocabulary can be more challenging for students because they are not as easily recognizable as cognates.
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The researcher highlighted how noncognate terms differ significantly in pronunciation and meaning across languages.
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Etymology
The word noncognate is built from the beginning non- meaning 'not' and cognate, a word that originally meant 'born together' or 'related'. So, a noncognate word is one that is not from the same family as another word in a different language, like English 'dog' and French 'chien'.