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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Consonant clusters in Nigerian English
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 19-38, March 2026.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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Sociolinguistic variation in the rhythm of Nigerian English speech
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 125-143, March 2026.Abstract There is a dearth of research on speech rhythm in Nigerian English, and scholars have differing views on its nature, ranging from being syllable‐timed to tone‐timed. Apart from the fact that the majority of few available studies were conducted more than a decade ago, the exact nature of speech rhythm in Nigerian English remains contentious ...
Folajimi Oyebola, Osemudiamhe Ilekura
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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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Considering Performance in the Automated and Manual Coding of Sociolinguistic Variables: Lessons From Variable (ING). [PDF]
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The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling. [PDF]
Front Artif IntellGrieve J +9 more
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On the socio-cognitive coercion mechanism of the formation of mandarin construction "V+ta(he)+XP". [PDF]
Front PsycholZhang P.
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From sociolinguistic perception to strategic action in the study of social meaning. [PDF]
Linguist VanguardThiberge G, Burnett H.
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Shibboleth: An agent-based model of signalling mimicry. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Goodman JR, Caines A, Foley RA.
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Validating explicit rating tasks for measuring pronunciation biases: A case study of ING variation. [PDF]
Behav Res MethodsLi A, Tamminga M.
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