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Bunte, Pamela A. and Martha B. Kendall. 1981. When is an error not an error? Notes on language contact and the question of interference. Anthropological Linguistics 23 (1) : 1–7.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | error | evidential | language contact | language interference

Language as a subject

Yavapai

Annotation

Discussion of how 'they say' is used by bilingual English-Yavapai speakers in the sense of the Yavapai evidential marker. The social convention of using this marker cannot be termed 'deviant English' or 'interference'.