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Nigerian English: History, functions and features
World 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
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 6-24, February 2026.Abstract The so‐called Liber Iesus, a Latin prayer book commissioned for the young Massimiliano Sforza by his father Ludovico il Moro in the 1490s, features a splendid miniature depicting a meeting between the child count and Emperor Maximilian I. It is accompanied by a brief dialogue in German with an interlinear version in Italian on the topic of the
Michael Berger
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Imagined Chinese Speech Decoding Based on Initials and Finals From EEG Activity
IET Signal Processing, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.Brain‐computer interface (BCI) plays an important role in various fields, such as neuroscience, rehabilitation, and machine learning. The silent BCI, which can reconstruct inner speech from neural activity, holds great promise for aphasia patients. In this paper, we design an imagined Chinese speech experimental paradigm based on initials and finals ...
Jingyu Gu +4 more
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Contact and Language Change: Using the Present to Explain the Past1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 409-427, November 2025.Abstract Although we may know the outcome of language changes that could have resulted from language contact in the past, we are unlikely to know how and why these changes occurred unless we also know about the individual speakers who came into contact and the nature of their interactions—information that all too often is impossible to uncover.
Jenny Cheshire
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Oral Realisations of Orthographic Diphthongs in English Language
Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2019 This study aims at presenting an analysis of how Brazilian students of English language realise the English orthographic diphthongs orally. We are based on the theoretical principles of Second Language Acquisition, Linguistic Variation in L2 and the ...
Alexandre STEIN, Dircel Aparecida KAILER
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The Integration of Norse‐Derived Terms in English: Effects of Formal Similarity1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 556-591, November 2025.Abstract Language change arising from language contact is a complex phenomenon. Peter Matthews encouraged researchers to consider it as firmly grounded in the behaviour of individual speakers. We apply this perspective to investigate the integration of Norse‐derived terms into medieval English, testing for the effect of their phonetic similarity to ...
Sara M. Pons‐Sanz, Seán G. Roberts
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Checking pronunciation of some monosyllabic words with diphthongs, and a few nominalised forms, with GK.
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Acoustic properties of Czech diphthongs [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis aims to contribute to the basic acoustic description of Czech diphthongs [ou, au, eu]. The diphthong is a unit characterized by the change of quality within its duration, thus dividing it into two parts.
Studenovský, David
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 428-459, November 2025.Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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