Cognates Based on the NGSL

New General Service List (NGSL) was developed by Browne et. al (2013) for studying English as a second language, providing over 92% coverage for most general English texts.

After the five raters discussed each word on the list, 329 Turkish loanword cognates that share the similar or same spelling and pronunciation of the English words were detected, this counts for 11.75% of words in the NGSL; 16 words, namely 0.57%, were categorized as having Turkish loanword cognates but with different spelling and pronunciation; as for the Turkish loanword cognates that share similar or same spelling only with the English words, 11 words were detected, which is 0.39% of the NGSL; 28 words (1%) were identified as having Turkish loanword cognates that are similar or same in pronunciation but not spelling. Turkish loanword cognates that were recognized as partial cognates of the English words take 3.14% of the NGSL, namely 88 words. Finally, 44 false cognates were detected, counting for 1.57% of the NGSL.

Turkish-English Loanword Cognates Based on the NGSL can be downloaded by the following link (Appendix 2).

https://doi.org/10.14744/felt.2021.3.2.2