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LITERATURE, LINGUISTICS & CRITICISM

Nigerian English pronunciation preferences: A corpus-based survey of pronunciation variants

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Article: 2061104 | Received 25 Aug 2021, Accepted 29 Mar 2022, Published online: 03 May 2022

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