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Wayward daughter: Language contact in the emergence of Pichi (Equatorial Guinea) [PDF]
, 2013 Pichi is an Afro-Caribbean English Lexifier Creole spoken by some 150’000 people on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. Pichi is an offshoot of Krio (Sierra Leone) and shares many characteristics with its West African sister languages.
Yakpo, K
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National identity and the ownership of English in Nigeria
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 111-124, March 2026.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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Resonancias, 2018 This paper focuses on the applicability of theoretical tools from Sociolinguistics to the study of musical practices. The concepts of diglossia and cultural bilingualism, as well as the adaptation of the notions of pidgin and creole languages are ...
Fernando Lacerda Simões Duarte
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A Basic Description and Analytic Treatment of Noun Clauses in Nigerian Pidgin
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2006 This paper presents descriptions and analyses of noun clauses attested in my data of Nigerian Pidgin English as spoken in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt.
Kelechukwu U. Ihemere
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Attitudes to Nigerian Englishes in higher education
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 144-162, March 2026.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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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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El mito de las lenguas mixtas y los criollos franco-caribeños
Revista nuestrAmérica, 2018 Las lenguas criollas han sido tradicionalmente consideradas como variedades de las lenguas colonizadoras, dominantes, con las que comparten una relación diglósica y por tanto una consideración y reconocimiento institucional relativo, y que cuentan con ...
Paola Carrión González
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Does Being Bilingual Make You Better At Math? [PDF]
, 2015 The purpose of this study is to examine if there is any relationship between being bilingual, defined as speaking your native language at home and another language in school, and your mathematical ability.
Elezi, Enxhi
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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 ...
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[Review of] Marcyliena Morgan , ed. Language and the Social Construction of Identity in Creole Situations [PDF]
, 1995 The result of a 1990 conference on The Social Significance of Creole Language Studies sponsored by Pomona and Pitzer of the Claremont Colleges and the University of California, Los Angeles, this stimulating collection of six papers enriches the field ...
Herzfeld, Anita
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