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Waqf, Values and the Ulama: Towards Harnessing Philanthropy for Community Uplift in Northern Nigeria [PDF]
, 2013 Employing narratives, and analysis of available literature, this exploratory study is limited in scope by the few accounts ...
Muhammad Ibrahim Nuruddeen
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National identity and the ownership of English in Nigeria
World Englishes, EarlyView.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
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The NiuTrans Machine Translation Systems for WMT21 [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 This paper describes NiuTrans neural machine translation systems of the WMT 2021 news translation tasks. We made submissions to 9 language directions, including English$\leftrightarrow$$\{$Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Icelandic$\}$ and English$\rightarrow$Hausa tasks.
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Storyline structure in Hausa home videos : an analysis of Mai Kudi, Sanafahna, and Albashi [PDF]
, 2011 This study analyzes storyline structure in three Hausa home videos; Mai Kudi (The Rich Man), Sanafahna (with time truth shall dawn) and Albashi (Salary).
Abubakar, Ali Liman
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Children and the experience of violence: contrasting cultures of punishment in northern Nigeria [PDF]
, 2000 Arising out of debates over ‘children at risk’ and the ‘rights of the child’, the article compares two contrasting childhoods within a single large society—the Hausa‐speaking peoples of northern Nigeria.
Last, M
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Attitudes to Nigerian Englishes in higher education
World Englishes, EarlyView.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
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Global Readiness of Language Technology for Healthcare: What would it Take to Combat the Next Pandemic? [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic has brought out both the best and worst of language technology (LT). On one hand, conversational agents for information dissemination and basic diagnosis have seen widespread use, and arguably, had an important role in combating the pandemic.
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Nigeria: Ethno-linguistic Competition in the Giant of Africa [PDF]
, 2008 Nigeria is a country with an immense population of over 140 million, the largest in Africa, and several hundred languages and ethnic groups (over 400 in some estimates, 510 according to Ethnologue 2005), though with no single group being a majority, and ...
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Verb patterning and acculturation in Nigerian English
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract Speech communities have the tendency to develop habits as to which words tend to co‐occur, in the form of coinages and collocational patterns, thus constituting an aspect conducive to the subtle emergence of language variation. As these co‐occurrence tendencies become lexicalised and confined to specific, rigid word combinations, new ...
Mary Ifeoluwa Abidoye, Hans‐Georg Wolf
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