Maria O’Neill & M. Casanovas False Friends: A Historical Perspective & Present Implications for Lexical Acquisition Maria O’Neill & M. Casanovas
What Is False Friends? Same / Similar Sound, BUT Different in Meaning Ex: Sensible American – Reasonable / French and Spanish - Sensitive Why? (Because of a common origin) Two Different Parts in False Friends
Major Source Majority From Latin / Either Directly or Indirectly through French
Diachronic Perspective Words and Meanings Change Through Time “It is closer to a living organism than a finished building.” - pg 103 – 104 Two Motives Borrowing & Enfranchisement
Two Phases of Borrowing Oral Transmission Literature & Written words
Synchronic Perspective: Theoretical Aspects Existed at one point in time (Not Changing through time) False Friends 3 Group Segregation Intersection Inclusion
Study We can provide some studied words from the experiment
Deceptive Cognate Same / Similar Sound and Meaning, BUT Different Origin