National identity and the ownership of English in Nigeria
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract It has been argued that, especially in non‐Inner Circles of English, whether or not speakers consider language to be a harbinger of national identity affects their positioning as owners of that language. A plethora of prior studies have also demonstrated that language is of central importance regarding the ways in which people enact their ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi, Robert M. Mckenzie
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Modelling individual differences in reading using an optimised MikeNet simulator: the impact of reading instruction. [PDF]
Front Hum NeurosciChang YN +5 more
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The Americanization of Nigerian English spelling and punctuation
World 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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Co-design to consensus: Identifying the core elements of a novel intervention for pre-school children with co-occurring phonological speech sound disorder (SSD) and developmental language disorder (DLD) using a modified e-Delphi approach. [PDF]
PLoS OneRodgers L +10 more
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Attitudes to Nigerian Englishes in higher education
World 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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Iconicity as an organizing principle of the lexicon. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S ACampbell EE +5 more
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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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Book review:English phonology and pronunciation teaching, by P. Rogerson-Revell. London: Continuum [PDF]
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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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