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The Americanization of Nigerian English spelling and punctuation

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract Spelling is the most standardized level of language, and prescriptive spelling norms in former British colonies often advocate adherence to British spelling norms which differs from the local linguistic reality. Hence, recent research on the evolution of postcolonial Englishes and the Americanization of Englishes worldwide has questioned the ...
Temitayo Olatoye
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Segmental speech timing at the phoneme and syllable levels in English and Afrikaans speaking white South African children

, 1989
Carol L. Oosthuizen
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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

Temporal organization of song modulates vocal learning. [PDF]

iScience
James LS, Ruge O, Sakata JT.
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

Subsecond Analysis of Locomotor Activity in Parkinsonian Mice. [PDF]

eNeuro
Berezhnoi D, Chehade HD, Simms G, Chen L, Narasimhan KKS, Dravid SM, Chu HY.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Sociolinguistic variation in the rhythm of Nigerian English speech

World Englishes, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Acoustic and linguistic influences on rise-time modulations in natural English speech: evidence from a sensorimotor synchronization paradigm. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Lin CY, Rathcke T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Refined analysis of the Speech-to-Speech Synchronization task reveals subharmonic synchronization. [PDF]

Front Neurosci
Bross S, Hofmann A, Schneider K, Wartenburger I.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Sweet as – The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
wiley   +1 more source