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The stress pattern of Nigerian English

'Demola Jolayemi · 2006

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The book explores the homogeneity and otherwise in the English stress use among the Nigerians represented by the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba speakers of of English. The outcome of the book is as a result of rigorously collected data among 901 respondents across Nigeria and the United Kingdom. The methodology included formulated Research Questions and Hypotheses, which were analysed by the Analysis of Covariance and Duncan's Multiple Range Test. Visi-Pitch Machine was also used to to test the data. To provide the scientific evidence of the identified stress pattern, the computer Software named PRAAT (Version 4.404) was employed for the acoustic analysis.

Book details

Year
2006
Language
English
Series
REAL Studies -- 2
Publisher
Cuvillier Verlag
Editions
1
Pages
198
ISBN
9783867270977

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