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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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Learned Publishing, Volume 38, Issue 2, April 2025.ABSTRACT Under the pressure of English as the lingua franca for research publication, local journals have changed their language policies for survival. While some discontinued their local‐language editions and became English journals, others resorted to bilingual publishing through translation, which may enable them to be integrated into the ...
Xiangdong Li
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Converging to a Lingua Franca: Evolution of Linguistic Regions and Semantics Alignment in Multilingual Large Language Models [PDF]
arXivLarge language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance, particularly in multilingual contexts. While recent studies suggest that LLMs can transfer skills learned in one language to others, the internal mechanisms behind this ability remain unclear.
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Review of Education, Volume 13, Issue 1, April 2025.Abstract Evidence syntheses, such as systematic reviews, aim to summarise the current state of research in a field, often using the publication language of a study as a criterion for inclusion or exclusion. However, this has serious implications for capturing evidence from a wider range of geographical areas, and the potential for linguistic bias.
Svenja Bedenlier +4 more
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Lingua franca: The Review of Academic Life (Book Review)
, 1991 Martha L. Brogan
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The fallacy of single imputation for trait databases: Use multiple imputation instead
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 4, Page 658-667, April 2025.Abstract The past few years have seen the publication of many new trait databases. A common problem with large databases is a lack of completeness, or inversely, the high prevalence of missing values. Biologists have developed several methods to impute (fill in) missing values.
Simone P. Blomberg, Orlin S. Todorov
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Notes on English used as a lingua franca as an object of study [PDF]
, 2013 Janus Mortensen
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Lower Income Marriage Migrants and Domains of Integration in Singapore
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 85-94, April 2025.ABSTRACT Drawing on the domains of integration, this paper illuminates the integration experiences of female marriage migrants from lower income cross‐national families in Singapore. Through interviews with 38 cross‐national families of the Singaporean‐husband and foreign‐wife pairing, we show how the integration of lower income marriage migrants in ...
Bernice Loh +3 more
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