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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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Coinage and Neologism in Hausa Political Programs: A Sociolinguistics Perspective
Register Journal, 2019 Linguistic aspect of language development is not an event that occur abruptly; rather, it pass through processes that take place gradually over time, in a stage by stage development. This paper dwells on linguistic issues on coinage and neologism arising
Abdulkadir Abu Bakar Zailini
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Consonant clusters in Nigerian English
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores consonant cluster production and its influencing factors in Nigerian English using a corpus‐based approach. More than 4000 onset and coda consonant clusters produced in the broadcast talks, broadcast discussions and broadcast news from ICE‐Nigeria by a total of 44 speakers were analysed with reference to cluster position ...
Ulrike Gut, Philipp Meer
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Phonological Analysis of the English Consonants Articulations of Hausa Speakers of English: An Optimality Perspective [PDF]
, 2022 Abdulmalik Usman
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Nigerian English: History, functions and features
World Englishes, EarlyView.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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Sociolinguistic variation in the rhythm of Nigerian English speech
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract There is a dearth of research on speech rhythm in Nigerian English, and scholars have differing views on its nature, ranging from being syllable‐timed to tone‐timed. Apart from the fact that the majority of few available studies were conducted more than a decade ago, the exact nature of speech rhythm in Nigerian English remains contentious ...
Folajimi Oyebola, Osemudiamhe Ilekura
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The origin and spread of Islam in Anglophone Cameroon
Vestiges: Traces of RecordThe Fulani and Hausa were among the first people to embrace Islam in black Africa through the Jihads of Muslim clerics, among was Uthman Dan Fodio and had far reaching consequences for Muslims and non Muslims peoples.
Jabiru Muhammadou Amadou
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Dynamics of the Diphtheria Epidemic in Nigeria: Insights from the Kano State Outbreak Data
MathematicsDiphtheria is a severely infectious and deadly bacterial disease with Corynebacterium diphtheriae as the causative agent. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, contagious diseases such as diphtheria have re-emerged due to disruptions in routine childhood ...
Sani Musa +4 more
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Studies in African Linguistics, 1989 In their presentation of three-dimensional phonology, Halle and Vergnaud [1980, 1981] propose that Hausa singular nouns are morphologically complex like the plural forms, composed of a stem plus a singular suffix.
Donald A. Burquest
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Sustainable Food Proteins, Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2026.Graphical Overview of Protein quality characterization of velvet and African yam beans. ABSTRACT The increasing demand for plant‐based foods has intensified research in alternative protein sources. This study assessed the chemical composition, functional properties, and biological qualities of velvet bean (VB) and African yam bean (AYB) flours to ...
Chiemeziem Adanma Obike +4 more
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