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Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 426-438, September 2026.ABSTRACT This study investigates the perceptions of Americanisms among three generations of Nigerians. While prior research has provided quantitative evidence for American influence in contemporary Nigerian English, the role of language beliefs and ideologies in mediating such changes remains underexplored.
Temitayo Olatoye
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The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 389-404, September 2026.Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
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, 1995 Evidence recently unearthed in documentary sources (such as voyage accounts and Hawaiian-language newspapers) has failed to support the theory that the predominant plantation language and lingua franca of Hawaii's polyglot population in the 19th century ...
Julian M. Roberts
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Sport I love with all my heart, Rod, and yacht, and gun [first line]
, 1883 strophic [with dance interlude]piano and voiceRespectfully Dedicated to the Champion "Boston Nine"Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box 027, Item 008Words by Chas. F. Pidgin. Music by Chas. D. Blake.A.B.
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On Selected Origins of Contact Languages. A Socio-Historical Perspective
Styles of Communication, 2012 The external socio-historical factors that determine the rise of contact languages define the new varieties and decide on their form and structures. Pidgin languages arise as a consequence of many social and historical processes which involve political ...
Aleksandra Knapik
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Iconicity as the motivation for morphophonological metathesis and truncation in Nigerian Pidgin
Open LinguisticsWe present evidence for iconicity as the motivation for two patterns of morphophonological alternation in Nigerian Pidgin, also known as Naijá. To express an ‘unconventional positive’ in all varieties of Naijá, some nouns with the tone melodies H-L and L-
Akinbo Samuel Kayode +1 more
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Adapting to Change: The Dynamic Crop Production Systems of Smallholder Farmers in the PNG Highlands
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 240-253, August 2026.ABSTRACT Smallholder sweet potato farmers in Papua New Guinea's Eastern Highlands Province (EHP) face challenges as they navigate social, economic, demographic, and environmental change. While they routinely adapt to weather variability and shifting markets, population growth is placing additional strain on an already finely balanced farming system ...
Geoff Kuehne +9 more
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Pidgin English in Ghanaian churches [PDF]
, 2013 This paper revisits the sociolinguistic discussions on the domain of use of Pidgin English in Ghana (cf. Huber 1999; 1995; Dako 2002; Ofulue 2011). It advances the claim that pidgin is currently undergoing a process of expanding its domain of use into ...
Frimpong, GK
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The National Identity of the Komi Joke
Polylinguality and Transcultural PracticesConsiderable attention has been paid to the issue of Komi-Russian linguistic and intercultural relations in the works of linguists and sociologists. Recently, more substantial research in folkloristics has also emerged.
Pavel F. Limerov
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Atlantic features in Asian varieties of Creole Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2009 This article identifies five Atlantic features in Asian varieties of Creole Portuguese. These reflect common substrate influence from Niger-Congo languages converging with Portuguese forms.
John Holm
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