Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Indigenisation by Eric A. Anchimbe

Author:Eric A. Anchimbe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

In correlating ethnic pronunciation patterns to sociolectal hierarchy, Banjo (1996, p. 76) explains that some of the features, especially, homophony due to the absence of vowel length, occur more in basilectal speech than in acrolectal speech . For instance, according to him, in Nigerian English , “Variety 1 [basilectal] /li:v/ is equivalent to RP /li:v/ and /liv/ (leave and live)…, /faja/ represents RP /faiə/ (fire).” However, he (Banjo 1996, p. 79) further states that

Variety III…represents the acrolectal use of English in Nigeria…As noted elsewhere (Banjo 1971) , it shares the same deep structure with RP but has Nigerian phonetic features. Sometimes these phonetic features, though not impeding intelligibility , are strong enough to mark the speaker’s provenance.

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