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A Guide to Build (ING) GLMM Trees in Canadian Maritime English: Part 2, Linguistic Factors

open access: yesLanguage and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT This second paper in a two‐part methodological guide demonstrates how Generalised Linear Mixed Model (GLMM) tree analysis can be used to explore linguistic conditioning in sociolinguistic variation. Building on Part 1, which introduced the dataset and illustrated how GLMM trees reveal social patterning in (ING) variation, Part 2 focuses on the
Matt Hunt Gardner
wiley   +1 more source

Nigerian English research: Developments and directions

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 182-198, March 2026.
Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
wiley   +1 more source

National identity and the ownership of English in Nigeria

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 111-124, March 2026.
Abstract It has been argued that, especially in non‐Inner Circles of English, whether or not speakers consider language to be a harbinger of national identity affects their positioning as owners of that language. A plethora of prior studies have also demonstrated that language is of central importance regarding the ways in which people enact their ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi, Robert M. Mckenzie
wiley   +1 more source

The Americanization of Nigerian English spelling and punctuation

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 76-95, March 2026.
Abstract Spelling is the most standardized level of language, and prescriptive spelling norms in former British colonies often advocate adherence to British spelling norms which differs from the local linguistic reality. Hence, recent research on the evolution of postcolonial Englishes and the Americanization of Englishes worldwide has questioned the ...
Temitayo Olatoye
wiley   +1 more source

Attitudes to Nigerian Englishes in higher education

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 144-162, March 2026.
Abstract Although there is a bourgeoning of studies on attitudes towards Nigerian Englishes, there is limited research on the effects of participants’ discipline (STEM and non‐STEM) and the type of secondary school (private and government) they attended in evaluating Nigerian Englishes.
Sopuruchi Christian Aboh
wiley   +1 more source

Automated item-level measures of verbal fluency in semantic and logopenic primary progressive aphasia. [PDF]

open access: yesAlzheimers Dement
Vonk JMJ   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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