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Nigerian English: History, functions and features

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 7-18, March 2026.
Abstract This article offers a comprehensive overview of Nigerian English, a rapidly expanding variety of world Englishes, recognised as one of the fastest‐growing varieties of English globally in numerical terms. This article has four aims. First, it discusses the historical developments of English in Nigeria with reference to the events that led to ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Scottish corpus of texts and speech [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Anderson, J., Beavan, D., Kay, C.
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Cultural conceptualisations and the cultural model of fertility and infertility in Nigerian English

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 163-181, March 2026.
Abstract The article scrutinises the concepts of fertility and infertility as reflected in Nigerian English. For this, a mixed‐methods approach is suggested that uses the Corpus of Global Web‐based English as a resource to shed light on lexical frequency and collocations, as well as a newspaper corpus of online articles from The Guardian and Vanguard ...
Anna Finzel
wiley   +1 more source

Mitigating the Negative Transfer in Multi‐Task Learning for Harmful Language Detection in Spanish and Arabic

open access: yesExpert Systems, Volume 43, Issue 2, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Negative transfer continues to limit the benefits of multi‐task learning (MTL) in harmful language detection, where related tasks must share representations without diluting task‐specific nuances. We introduce task awareness (TA), a methodological framework that explicitly conditions MTL models on the task they must solve.
Angel Felipe Magnossão de Paula   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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