Reconstructing Native Language Typology from Foreign Language Usage

Linguists and psychologists have long been studying cross-linguistic transfer, the influence of native language properties on linguistic performance in a foreign language. In this work we provide empirical evidence for this process in the form of a strong correlation between language similarities de...

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Main Authors: Berzak, Yevgeni, Reichart, Roi, Katz, Boris
Format: Technical Report
Language:en_US
Published: Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), arXiv 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100171