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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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[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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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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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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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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Eliminating unpredictable variation through iterated learning [PDF]
, 2010 Human languages may be shaped not only by the (individual psychological) processes of language acquisition, but also by population-level processes arising from repeated language learning and use.
Smith, Kenny, Wonnacott, Elizabeth
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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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The existence of Indonesian language: Pidgin or Creole
Journal on English as a Foreign Language, 2016 Indonesian language or sometimes called Bahasa is the national language of Indonesia. It was derived from Malay language and established as a national language in 1928. Until now, the Indonesian language keeps borrowing words from other languages.
Dellis Pratika
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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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