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Attitudes to Nigerian Englishes in higher education
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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Landau 2010: Cognitive Sociolinguistics
Círculo de Linguística aplicada a la Comunicación
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Design of a bilingual (FR-UR) website on the sensitive topic of sexual and mental health with Urdu speakers in a Parisian suburb: a qualitative study. [PDF]
Jaroof S, Cailhol J.
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Verb patterning and acculturation in Nigerian English
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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The "Naturalistic Free Recall" dataset: four stories, hundreds of participants, and high-fidelity transcriptions. [PDF]
Raccah O+4 more
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Consonant clusters in Nigerian English
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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SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH: A SURVEY
Terttu Nevalainen+1 more
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Nigerian English: History, functions and features
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+1 more
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Sociolinguistic variation in the rhythm of Nigerian English speech
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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