Cross-Linguistic Overlap English Vocabulary: A Data Approach to Lexical Similarity

Abstract

This study presents a computational methodology for identifying shared vocabulary between English and Spanish to support second language acquisition. Similarity indexes (S.I.) were calculated to determine the percentage of orthographic and semantic overlap languages. Both Spanish and English use the Roman script, which allowed for string comparison. English has received multiple loanwords from Latin, from which Spanish also derives. This study analyses the most frequent vocabulary in b and extract similar lexical items. The results show that a lexical similarity level of 53.13% corresponding to 1594 shared lexical terms was calculated using a lexico method to compare the 3000 highest frequency terms of the basic vocabulary of English and Spanish, identifying shared vocabulary as a pedagogical tool.