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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
wiley   +1 more source

The cognitive science of language diversity: achievements and challenges. [PDF]

Cogn Process
Benítez-Burraco A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Intraspeaker Priming across the New Zealand English Short Front Vowel Shift. [PDF]

Lang Speech, 2022
Villarreal D, Clark L.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages

, 2001
Ceil Lucas
openalex   +2 more sources

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
wiley   +1 more source

Racial and linguistic ideologies and formative assessment practices of U.S. science teachers: A preregistered conceptual replication and extension. [PDF]

PLoS One
Sedlacek QC, Ortiz N, Lemmi C, León M, Feldman KC.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Size Matters: Digital Social Networks and Language Change. [PDF]

Front Artif Intell, 2020
Laitinen M, Fatemi M, Lundberg J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Bilingualism is always cognitively advantageous, but this doesn't mean what you think it means. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Sanches de Oliveira G, Bullock Oliveira M.   +1 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Nigerian English: History, functions and features

World Englishes, EarlyView.
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 ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi, Sopuruchi Christian Aboh   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The semantics, sociolinguistics, and origins of double modals in American English: New insights from social media. [PDF]

PLoS One
Morin C, Grieve J.
europepmc   +1 more source