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Download full textMackey, William F. – 1970
The purposes of this paper are to examine the effects of synchronic description in distinguishing between interference and integration in cases of language contact, and to suggest alternative methods of description suitable for the analysis of systems in motion. The "synchronic fallacy" is defined here as the belief that one can describe a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Computer Programs, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
