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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Given fluent processing of first language material, the articulatory loop may never consciously intrude into the interpreter's performance.
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In this respect learner errors which reveal first language influence are the natural reflex of procedures of meaning negotiation.
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It follows that an individual's patterns of thought are conditioned by the nature of his or her first language .
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It was my first language , then Sincthi.
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Under certain circumstances, however, children may learn a pidgin as their first language .