Word lists have become available for most of the world’s languages, but only a small fraction of such lists contain cognate information. We present a machine-learning approach that automatically clusters words in multilingual word lists into cognate sets. Our method incorporates a number of diverse word similarity measures and features that encode the degree of affinity between pairs of languag...

X-ray data indicate that complexes of ribosomes with cognate and near cognate tRNAs are very similar structurally, and this was the ground for a suggestion that the ribosome discriminates correct codon-anticodon pair because of its higher stability. Here an alternative explanation of kinetic proofreading is suggested, and intramolecular oscillations in tRNAs play a keystone role in it. Resonanc...

The paper is another part of a planned longer series designed to step by reveal the Chadic and wider Afro-Asiatic cognate heritage in lexical stock Mubi-Toram languages which represent easternmost (27th) group vast (6th) branch gigantic family.

Cognate facilitation and false cognate inhibition effects have been tested in various language pairs with different experimental tasks participant profiles so far. However, studies focusing on the recognition or production of (false) cognates are nearly absent for Turkish-English despite prevalence these words. Thus, using a backward lexical translation task (from L2 to L1), this study aimed in...