A Database of Dutch–English Cognates, Interlingual Homographs and Translation Equivalents

Experiment 1 & 2. Published articles from which we selected many of the identical cognates and interlingual homographs that were rated in the two experiments. The first column lists the sources of identical cognates for the first experiment. The second column lists the sources of identical interlingual homographs for the second experiment.

Experiment 1 & 2. Means (and standard deviations) and minimum and maximum values for the Dutch and English characteristics and orthographic similarity measure for the 65 identical cognates, 80 non-identical cognates, 87 identical interlingual homographs and 80 translation equivalents rated across both experiments. Frequency refers to the word’s SUBTLEX frequency in occurrences per million [see Keuleers et al. (2010) for Dutch and Brysbaert & New (2009) for English]; log10(frequency) refers to the SUBTLEX log-transformed raw word frequency [log10(raw frequency+1)]; OLD20 refers to Yarkoni et al.’s (2008) measure of orthographic complexity of a word, expressed as its mean orthographic Levenshtein distance to its 20 closest neighbours; orthographic similarity refers to the measure of objective orthographic similarity discussed in the text (measured on a scale from 0 to 1), which was calculated as the Levenshtein distance between the Dutch and English forms of the words divided by the length of the longest of the two forms.

Experiment 1 & 2. Examples of items for each of the word types and the Dutch sentence that provided a context for the word (with English translations). The non-identical interlingual homographs only served as fillers in these experiments. The catch items were included to determine whether the participants were carefully reading the sentences. During the experiments, the participants were only shown the Dutch sentence (with the Dutch word form, as here, marked in bold) and the English word form.

Experiment 1 & 2. Means (and standard deviations) and minimum and maximum values for the Dutch and English characteristics and similarity ratings for the set 58 identical cognates, 76 non-identical cognates, 72 identical interlingual homographs and 78 translation equivalents selected for inclusion in our database. Frequency refers to the word’s SUBTLEX frequency in occurrences per million [see Keuleers et al. (2010) for Dutch and Brysbaert & New (2009) for English]; log10(frequency) refers to the SUBTLEX log-transformed raw word frequency [log10(raw frequency+1)]; OLD20 refers to Yarkoni et al.’s (2008) measure of orthographic complexity of a word, expressed as its mean orthographic Levenshtein distance to its 20 closest neighbours. The similarity ratings were provided on a scale from 1 (not at all similar) to 7 [(almost) identical]. For the 28 items (7 identical cognates, 7 non-identical cognates and 14 translation equivalents) that were included in both experiments, only the average ratings from the first experiment were used.