Meaning of near-native | Babel Free

Definitions

Nearly native; close to be seen as indigenous to a particular habitat.

not-comparable

Examples

“On the other hand, Coppieters' (1987) study⟳ of nearnative speakers of French, selected by nativespeaking friends and colleagues for perceived nativeness in production, showed nonnative intuitions on the perfective/imperfective distinctions in French in a judgement test⟳.”

“Anyone who has been engaged in language translation or has read⟳ the same text in two different languages knows that some nuances may be lost in translation, and this untranslated five percent or so makes a difference. As long as not all people have⟳ fluency or near-native knowledge in all languages and cultures, translation cannot be avoided, and, thus, one must accept⟳ at least some ambiguity.”

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