How to pronounce “language transfer”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (linguistics, countable) Synonym of language shift.
• (linguistics, uncountable) The (correct or incorrect) application of linguistic features (grammar, vocabulary, etc.) from one language to another, such as false friends.

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