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Substrate Influence
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Substrate influence refers to the systematic, though often subtle, transmission of linguistic, material, or energetic characteristics from a foundational medium (the substrate (medium)/)) onto a subsequently overlying or interacting system (the superstrate). While most commonly discussed in historical linguistics (where it denotes the impact of a prior, displaced language on the language that replaces it), the concept has been extended across various scientific disciplines, particularly in [material…