Compound stress in Nigerian English

Sunday, Adesina B.

doi:10.1017/s026607841100037x

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“…Akindele (2012) observes a shift from the first syllable of disyllabic and trisyllabic words to the second syllable and, sometimes in trisyllabic words, the last syllable. Sunday (2011) observes that stress assignment in educated NE speech lacks distinction between compound nouns and phrases. Sunday and Oyatokun (2016) identify high pitch (likened to the high tone of the indigenous languages) as sufficient cue to stress as Nigerians do not take cognizance of other stress cues (intensity and duration).…”

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Technology-enhanced approximation to Standard English stress shift

Aiyeola

2023

English Today

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International intelligibility among World Englishes is indisputably pertinent. Second language contexts, such as Nigeria, often adopt the Received Pronunciation (RP) to achieve intelligibility and serve as the pedagogical and descriptive basis of the language (Carr & Honeybone, 2007). However, studies on spoken Nigerian English (NE) have established that RP is unattainable by Nigerians, English language teachers inclusive (Akinjobi & Aina, 2014; Aina, 2014; Adesanya, 2020a; Agboyinu, 2018; Aiyeola, 2021). Search for an ancillary model of Standard English pronunciation in Nigeria, therefore, becomes a necessity.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Technology-enhanced approximation to Standard English stress shift

Aiyeola

2023

English Today

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“…With formal education, a number of classifications have been made. Prominent among them are Brosnahan's (1958), Banjo's (1970Banjo's ( , 1996 and Odumuh's (1980) Varieties I, II, III, and IV and Adesanoye's (1973) written Varieties I, II, and III (Sunday, 2008). Banjo's taxonomy, which is the most popular, uses grammatical features and educational levels to classify NE.…”

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Suggested Spelling Reform in Educated Nigerian English (ENE)

Ekundayo

2014

Sage Open

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Written English is one area in which Nigerian linguists and grammarians do not accommodate variations of spelling for any sociolinguistic reason, even though they at times misspell or forget the spelling of some confusing words. Most people agree that English spelling system is problematic and therefore needs urgent reform, but who bells the cat? This article examines the English spelling system against the backdrop of Educated Nigerian English and the concept of nativization, stressing the need for reform or nativized spelling in Nigerian English. Questionnaires, library research, and the Internet were used to gather data for this study. The qualitative approach has been adopted in the main for the interpretation of data. The educated Nigerians studied admit that the English spelling system is in part so confusing that they misspell words at times. Therefore, they support the reform or nativization of English spelling. Consequently, this article presents and illustrates proposed reformed spelling by deleting redundant letters, unnecessary clusters of letters, dropping useless silent letters, regularizing digraph, and spelling compound words in one form only. These changes will enhance spelling skills, teaching, reading, and writing in English as a Second Language.

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“…In a quest to describe accents of NigE, studies like Kujore 1985; Atoye, 1991;Sunday, 2011;Bobda, 2013Bobda, , 2007Bobda, , 1997Anyagwa, 2014;Gut, 2008;Sunday & Oyatokun, 2016;Atoye 2005; Melefa & Amoniyan, 2019) have described several patterns that characterize NigE in either isolated or connected speeches. Sunday and Oyatokun (2016), in particular, submit that NigE is not absolute.…”

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Acoustic Correlates of Stress Patterns in Phrases and Compounds in the Sub-varieties of Educated Nigerian English

Amoniyan

2023

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Although scholarly attention has been drawn to the stress correlates of the sub-varieties of Educated Nigerian English (ENigE) without a conclusion on modes of determining stress patterns in the varieties, therefore, the current study provides insights into the stress correlates in the sub-variety. Two regional sub-varieties of ENigE, namely: Educated Yoruba English (EYE) and Educated Igbo English (EIE), are compared to describe the correlates of the stress of ENigE. Data were collected from twenty (20) university degree graduates (ten men and ten women). The participants have Igbo and Yoruba as their first languages (L1), satisfying Udofot’s 2004 classification for an educated variety of NigE. The participants read the prepared phrases and compounds to acoustic cues for stress placement in educated NigE. Acoustic signals such as pitch, intensity and duration are employed. The thresholds of significant difference are set at p<.05. This allows me to explore the interactions between YE, IE, and the control (British English). Findings show that pitch (F0) serves as the main cue for stress correlates in the sub-varieties. The results further reveal that 80% of the participants operated British English stress pattern in isolated words. It suggests that the cues for stress placement vary in the varieties by region and gender where English functions as a second language. However, duration and intensity as acoustic parameters are insufficient to predict stress correlates in the sub-varieties of the ENigE understudy. The study as well discovers fundamental frequencies as stress correlates in the sub-varieties.

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Compound stress in Nigerian English

Cited by 7 publications

References 4 publications

Technology-enhanced approximation to Standard English stress shift

Technology-enhanced approximation to Standard English stress shift

Suggested Spelling Reform in Educated Nigerian English (ENE)

Acoustic Correlates of Stress Patterns in Phrases and Compounds in the Sub-varieties of Educated Nigerian English

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