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Word stress in Nigerian English
Author(s) -
ATOYE RAPHAEL O.
Publication year - 1991
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.1467-971x.1991.tb00132.x
Subject(s) - stress (linguistics) , linguistics , phenomenon , word (group theory) , standard english , history , psychology , philosophy , epistemology
This paper examines the pattern of word stress in Nigerian Standard English. It shows that stress assignment is different in Nigerian Standard English compared to British Standard English. This paper claims that the major reason for this difference is a phenomenon called progressive stress shift.