Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
The influence of one linguistic system on another in either (a) the individual speaker (
transfer) or (b) the speech community ( borrowing, language contact).
In an individual, interference is seen as a source of errors ( error analysis, contrastive analysis); in a speech community, as a cause of language change. For many linguists, the term ‘interference’ has come to include the concept of analogy (as in ‘language-internal interference’).
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borrowing, language contact
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