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The Americanization of Nigerian English spelling and punctuation

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
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
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Attitudes to Nigerian Englishes in higher education

open access: yesWorld 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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Complexity in second language phonology acquisition Complexidade na aquisição da fonologia de segunda língua

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, 2013
This paper aims at situating the representation and investigation of second language phonology acquisition in light of complexity theory. The first section presents a brief historical panorama of complexity and chaos theory on second language acquisition,
Ronaldo Mangueira Lima Júnior
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Current research in phonological typology. [PDF]

open access: yesLinguist Typol, 2023
Moran S, Easterday S, Grossman E.
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Verb patterning and acculturation in Nigerian English

open access: yesWorld 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
wiley   +1 more source

Investigação histórica do bilinguismo na Península Ibérica a partir do século XV – até ao século XVII

open access: yesÉtudes romanes de Brno, 2009
The aim of the present paper is to give a historical and linguistic overview of the peculiar bilingual period in the Iberian Península in the 16th and 17th centuries, followed by historical, cultural and social background describing language behaviour ...
Ildikó Haffner
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Consonant clusters in Nigerian English

open access: yesWorld 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Evolution of Consonant Clusters in Vietnamese: Reconstruction Based on Manuscripts in Quốc ngữ Script from 17th to 19th Centuries

open access: yesJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
In the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum published by Alexandre de Rhodes in 1651, the graphemes bl-, ml-, tl-, pl-, mnh- of five initial clusters *ɓl-, *ml-, *tl-, *pl-, *mɲ- can be found. This dictionary often presents two graphemes for the
Pham, Thi Kieu Ly
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