Editing Language transfer (section)

{{Short description|Influence one language has on the acquisition or intelligibility of another}}
{{Redirect|Negative transfer|other uses|Negative transfer (disambiguation)}}
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'''Language transfer''' is the application of linguistic features from one language to another by a bilingual or multilingual speaker. Language transfer may occur across both languages in the acquisition of a [[Simultaneous bilingualism|simultaneous bilingual]]. It may also occur from a mature speaker's [[first language]] (L1) to a [[second language]] (L2) they are acquiring, or from an L2 back to the L1.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition|last=Jarvis, Scott|date=2008|publisher=Routledge|others=Pavlenko, Aneta|isbn=978-0-203-93592-7|location=New York|oclc=220962778}}</ref> Language transfer (also known as '''L1 interference''', '''linguistic interference''', and '''[[crosslinguistic influence]]''') is most commonly discussed in the context of [[English language learning and teaching]], but it can occur in any situation when someone does not have a native-level command of a language, as when [[translating]] into a second language. Language transfer is also a common topic in bilingual [[Language acquisition|child language acquisition]] as it occurs frequently in bilingual children especially when one language is dominant.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Paradis|first1=Johanne|last2=Genesee|first2=Fred|date=1996|title=SYNTACTIC ACQUISITION IN BILINGUAL CHILDREN: Autonomous or Interdependent?|journal=Studies in Second Language Acquisition|volume=18|issue=1|pages=1–25|issn=0272-2631|jstor=44487857|doi=10.1017/S0272263100014662|s2cid=143994688 }}</ref>