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Verb patterning and acculturation in Nigerian English
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 54-75, March 2026.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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Nigerian English: History, functions and features
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 7-18, March 2026.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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Introduction to the special issue on Nigerian English
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 2-6, March 2026.Abstract This article introduces this special issue of World Englishes devoted to Nigerian English. It outlines the significance of this special issue (and of Nigerian English) within global Englishes scholarship. It situates Nigerian English as one of the most demographically, functionally and intellectually important postcolonial varieties of English,
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
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Cultural conceptualisations and the cultural model of fertility and infertility in Nigerian English
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 163-181, March 2026.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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Chapter Memoria di lavoro, chunks e Lexical Approach: alcune possibili convergenze
, 2021 Working memory is one of the most investigated topics in cognitive psychology and neuropsychology since it plays a key role in the architecture of cognitive human system. Reasoning, problem solving, and learning would be not possible without the contribution of working memory.
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A study on very young learners learning lexical chunks
, 2015 Teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) to very young learners (VYL) is at the core of educational concerns in many countries. Some research has been conducted as to the teaching methods and approaches in accordance with the characteristics of learners. In addition, a few studies investigate the vocabulary teaching and learning of VYLs.
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A Computational Approach to the Discovery and Representation of Lexical Chunks
, 2006 Lexical chunks have in recent years become widely recognized as a crucial aspect of second language competence. We address two major sorts of challenge that chunks pose for lexicography and describe computational approaches to addressing these challenges.
Wible, David +4 more
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Babylonia, 2005 [Summary generated by ChatGPT] Overview: This issue of Babylonia is devoted to oral skills in second language (L2) learning and teaching, a key yet often overlooked dimension in language education.
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CAFE: Spontaneous code-switching speech dataset in Algerian dialect, French and English. [PDF]
Data BriefLachemat HE +5 more
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On the Relationship between Reading Abilities and Word Properties Involved in Word Recognition. [PDF]
J CognGatti D +4 more
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