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Language Contact: Structural Convergence and Divergence
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What is the term used to describe the process by which two or more languages become more similar in structure over time?
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Structural convergence
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Structural convergence occurs when two or more languages come into contact and begin to influence each other's grammatical structures, resulting in similarities between the languages.