Language contact occurs when speakers of
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Position 1: Under such conditions, vocabulary, grammatical structures, and phonological features frequently transfer from one language to another.
Position 2: Linguists study these emergent varieties to understand the cognitive and social mechanisms that govern how languages change over time.
Position 3: Language contact occurs when speakers of different languages interact regularly within a shared social environment.
Position 4: This process of borrowing can eventually give rise to entirely new contact varieties, such as creoles and pidgins.
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