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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 24, Issue 2 (September 2024)pp. 162–181PDF of An Exploratory Study of Semilingualism and Language Use among Yoruba-English Bilingual Undergraduates in Nigeria

   An Exploratory Study of Semilingualism and Language Use among Yoruba-English Bilingual Undergraduates in Nigeria

   Marvelous Damilola Adegbule and Anthony Elisha Anowu

   This study investigates semilingualism in relation to linguistic proficiency in Yoruba-English bilinguals. The concept of semilingualism is a contentious issue in Linguistics. The general perception is that people … languages vary in how much they use each language. However, some believe that some bilinguals have little competence in both languages. The study is based on the threshold hypothesis, which

2. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 24, Issue 2 (September 2024)pp. 182–202PDF of Sacred Words, Mixed Tongues: Yoruba-English Code-Switching as a Stylistic Resource in Contemporary Yoruba Praise-and-Worship Music

   Sacred Words, Mixed Tongues: Yoruba-English Code-Switching as a Stylistic Resource in Contemporary Yoruba Praise-and-Worship Music

   Memunat Olayemi Mahmud

   worship music. Contemporary gospel music remains comparatively under-examined as a site of bilingual aesthetic and theological practice relative to classical Yoruba oral genres. Drawing on foregrounding theory and Myers

3. Volume 22, Issue 2 (September 2022)pp. 66–84PDF of Phonotactic Constraints and English Pronunciation among Gbagyi Speakers of Nigerian English

   Phonotactic Constraints and English Pronunciation among Gbagyi Speakers of Nigerian English

   Usman Abdullahi, Isaiah Ifeanyichukwu Agbo, Bernice Nonye Ogbochie, Aminu Saleh and Suleiman Muhammed Badamasi

   Gbagyi phonotactic constraints on the pronunciation of English consonant clusters among Gbagyi-English bilinguals in Niger State, Nigeria. Twenty-seven participants were purposively selected based on native Gbagyi proficiency, English