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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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Vietnamese Initial Consonant Clusters in Quốc Ngữ Documents from the 17th to Early 19th Centuries
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2019 This paper presents a few claims based on documents written in the Vietnamese Quốc Ngữ Roman orthography. The fact that Vietnamese once had initial consonant clusters bl, ml, mnh (/mɲ/) and tl is well known.
VU Duc Nghieu
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Grammars Across Time Analyzed (GATA): a dataset of 52 languages. [PDF]
Sci Data, 2023 Blum F +4 more
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Cultural conceptualisations and the cultural model of fertility and infertility in Nigerian English
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The article scrutinises the concepts of fertility and infertility as reflected in Nigerian English. For this, a mixed‐methods approach is suggested that uses the Corpus of Global Web‐based English as a resource to shed light on lexical frequency and collocations, as well as a newspaper corpus of online articles from The Guardian and Vanguard ...
Anna Finzel
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Ten things you should know about sign languages. [PDF]
Curr Dir Psychol Sci, 2023 Emmorey K.
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Issues in the historical phonology of Gauri Jingpho [PDF]
, 2015 Keita Kurabe
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Sweet as – The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
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A Complementary Relation between Historical Data and Theory in Phonology
, 2018 최재혁
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