(th)-variation in Nigerian English
A corpus-based investigation of interdental fricative realisation in Educated Nigerian English
This talk examines variation in the realisation of interdental fricatives in Educated Nigerian English using the phonetically annotated Nigerian component of the International Corpus of English (ICE). The dataset comprises 799 tokens produced by 44 speakers in broadcast discussions, news, and talks. The data is analysed with a mixed-effects binomial logistic regression model that takes into account language-internal as well as language-external factors.
This talk examines variation in the realisation of interdental fricatives in Educated Nigerian English using the phonetically annotated Nigerian component of the International Corpus of English (ICE). The dataset comprises 799 tokens produced by 44 speakers in broadcast discussions, news, and talks. The data is analysed with a mixed-effects binomial logistic regression model that takes into account language-internal as well as language-external factors.
