language transfer
Linguistics and Education
noun
The phenomenon whereby acquisition of a new language is influenced by the grammar, pronunciation, orthography, or other aspects of an individual's first language (or another previously learned language), which may either inhibit or facilitate learning.
Origin
1930s.
- mellilite
- melling
- Mellin inversion formula
- Mellin's inversion formula
- Mellin transform
- mellitate
- mellite
- mellitic acid
- mellitimide
- mellituria
- mellivorous
- mell of a hess
- Mellon, Andrew
- mellophone
- mellophonist
- mellophonium
- mellorine
- mellotron
- mellow
- mellowish
- mellowly
- mellowness
- mellowspeak
- mellowy
- mellow yellow