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The use of actually in spoken Xhosa English: a corpus study

Author(s) -

Klerk Vivian De

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

world englishes

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.6

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 1467-971X

pISSN - 0883-2919

DOI - 10.1111/j.0883-2919.2005.00410.x

Subject(s) - xhosa , linguistics , spoken language , benchmark (surveying) , computer science , first language , history , psychology , sociology , natural language processing , geography , philosophy , geodesy

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the semantic and syntactic characteristics of the discourse marker actually , and then to describe and explain how it is used by mother‐tongue (MT) Xhosa speakers who have learned English as an additional language. Such a description may provide a useful benchmark for comparison with MT norms. The source of data for the study is a corpus of approximately half a million words of transcribed spontaneous dialogue between Xhosa English speakers.

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