ASL STEM Logo

ASL STEM

Substrate Effect Sign Video

No video uploaded yet.

Definition

The influence of a language or a language contact situation on another language variety after the former language has ceased to be a source for immediate transfer or after the original contact situation has long passed. For example, some varieties of Italian English are influenced by Italian vowels, even among speakers who do not speak Italian itself.

Source: American English, second edition by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes
Other Submissions

BROWSE

All

> Science

> Social Science

> Linguistics

> Substrate Effect

* video needed

click here to zoom in