The phrase "linguistic interference" is a correct and commonly used term in written English.
It refers to the influence of one language on another, resulting in errors or changes in the second language. One example of using this phrase could be in a sentence discussing the challenges of learning a second language: "Many bilingual individuals struggle with linguistic interference, as the structures and rules of their native language often creep into their speech and writing in the second language."
The latter hypothesis would suggest a long period of bilingualism (up to perhaps 500 years), as linguistic interference between languages in contact rarely outlives the bilingual stage.
Monolinguals who acquire a second language later in life begin to encounter the same type of linguistic interference as bilinguals, but with a different pre-existing language architecture.
This design allowed us to compare lexical decision times obtained with the 2 kinds of background noise in each language and thus to assess the linguistic interference caused by babble.
In addition, cross-linguistic interference from English influenced processing of newly-learned Spanish words, decreasing hippocampus activity.
The current study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to explore the beginning stages of second language acquisition and cross-linguistic interference in monolingual adults.
On general cognitive ability, early evidence suggested that bilinguals sometimes outperform monolinguals on non-linguistic interference paradigms, such as the Simon, Stroop, and flanker tasks (Bialystok, Craik, & Luk, 2008; Meuter & Allport, 1999).
Results revealed that babble spoken in the known languages (French and Italian) produced both linguistic and acoustic interference and that babble spoken in the unknown language (Irish) produced acoustic interference only.
With such temporal constraints and the request of a manual response, performance could rely on perceptual representation with no interference of linguistic representations.
Reaction times and accuracy were recorded to measure the extent to which the participants' linguistic performance was affected by the interference of TMS with M1 activity.
In fact, subtle stimulus variations have been used in several studies reporting interaction of linguistic and musical processing, such as the interference of harmony on phonological and semantic processing [44], [46] or the interaction of semantics and harmony [17].
Possibly, linguistic stimuli increase task difficulty, thus enhancing interference.
