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Line 44: Part of the debate may be solved by simply clarifying some key definitions. Evidently, linguists sometimes use different terminology to refer to the same phenomenon, which can make it confusing to distinguish between two phenomena from one another in investigative discourse. For instance, psycholinguists frequently make use of the term language switching in reference to the "controlled and willed switching" to another language. However, this term is hardly used by linguists working on natural code-switching.<ref name="Treffers-Daller20092" /> Nevertheless, adopting the notion that code-switching involves switching between languages by a multilingual speaker fluent in the languages being alternated, can alleviate the contention behind this debate. This is so because language transfer does not require such a switch between language systems to be ~~done~~performed by a multilingual speaker fluent in the alternated languages. As a result, this can ~~explain~~account for transfer errors, when proficiency in one language is lower than the proficiency of the speaker in the other. On the other hand, there are linguists that maintain "that CS and transfer are manifestations of the same phenomenon, i.e. the influence of one language on another, is an attractive null hypothesis that can be tested in experimental settings."<ref name="Treffers-Daller20092" />

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