Bilingual Competence and the Suppressive Influence of English on Yoruba
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2011
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The contact between English and Yoruba, a Nigerian language, is a typical example of the language contact situation that has existed between English and many other Nigerian languages since the middle of the 19th Century. The contact between the languages has yielded some linguistic and sociolinguistic features, which overlap bi-directionally in the contact languages as aspects of linguistic facilitation or interference.
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Nigerian Languages, Suppressive influence of the learning of English, Suppressive influence of the use of English, Co-existence of Yoruba and English in Nigeria, Extent of Bilingualism of Yoruba speakers of English, Yoruba monolinguals
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Adegbite, Adewale Bandele (2011). Bilingual Competence and the Suppressive Influence of English on Yoruba. In Okoro, Oko (Ed.). Nigerian English in Sociolinguistic Perspectives: Linguistic and Literary Paradigms (A Festschrift in Honour of Funso Akere). Lagos: Pumark, pp. 161 - 180.