| Lemma | over-differentiation |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Weinreich (1957) |
| Titolo | "On the Description of Phonic Interference" |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | secondary language (inglese) under-differentiation (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | Whenever a bilingual classifies a feature of sound as distinctive which in the original 'S'-language is redundant, we may speak of OVER-DIFFERENTIATION. [...] The advance represented by this statement compared to that in 'LiC' [Weinreich, U., 1967, Languages in Contact. Findings and Problems, Columbia University, Mouton & Co., p.18.] lies in the realizations that (a) over- and under-differentiation are matters of distinctive features rather than of phonemes [...] (b) over- and under-differentiation are matters of analysis rather than rendition [...]. |