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negative transfer

noun

Definitions

  1. The unsuccessful use by a language learner of a construct from the learner's source…

    The unsuccessful use by a language learner of a construct from the learner's source language in the target language, such that the resulting utterance in the target language is incorrect.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for negative transfer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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