Morpho-Syntactic ‘Intraference’ in Educated Nigerian English (ENE)  

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Ekundayo, Steve Bode Omowumi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: World Journal of English Language vol. 3 no. 3 (2013), page 37-50.
Topik: intraference; syntactic intraference; ESL; interlanguage; educated Nigerian English
Fulltext: 2830-10638-1-PB.pdf (115.91KB)

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Interference is a major feature of English as a Second Language (ESL). Besides interference, there are ‘the overgeneralization of linguistic materials and semantic features’ in ‘interlanguage’ (Selinker, 1984, p.37), ‘intralingual interference’ or ‘systemic intralingual errors’ (Richards and Sampson, 1984, pp. 6-13) and ‘the internal principle/factors of linguistic variability’ (Labov, 1994, p.84). In this paper, ‘Intraference’ is used as a more economical term for these long terminologies. Library research, questionnaires and the record of live linguistic events by educated Nigerians were used to gather data to demonstrate syntactic intraference in ENE from 2006 to 2012. It is then shown that educated Nigerians produce syntactic intraference cases mainly in the use of noun and prepositional phrases, multiple verbs, non-finite verb and subordinate clauses, collocation and the repetition of structures. These features distinguish ENE from SBE. Intraference features are not necessarily vulgar errors, but the outcomes of the redeployment of English rules and items engendered by psycho-sociolinguistic factors.

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