March 1990
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Hispania
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... Convergence is a technical term widely used also in language contact studies. It is defined as a process by which two languages in contact change to become structurally more alike, assuming they were different at the onset of contact (Aalberse and Muysken 2019;Silva-Corvalán 1990;Thomason 2001). Thomason (2001) gave a wide definition for convergence claiming that, in a contact situation, languages converge in ways that make them more similar, but cross-language interference can be mutual, and not necessarily unidirectional. ...
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March 1990
Hispania