Vowel and Consonant Replacements in the Spoken French of Ijebu Undergraduate French Learners in Selected Universities in South West of Nigeria
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18533/journal.v4i4.609Keywords:
Consonant substitution, Ijebu dialect, IUFLs, vowel substitution.Abstract
Substitution is a phonological process in language. Existing studies have examined deletion in several languages and dialects with less attention paid to the spoken French of Ijebu Undergraduates. This article therefore examined substitution as a dominant phenomenon in the spoken French of thirty-four Ijebu Undergraduate French Learners (IUFLs) in Selected Universities in South West of Nigeria with a view to establishing the dominance of substitution in the spoken French of IUFLs. The data collection was through tape-recording of participants’ production of 30 sentences containing both French vowel and consonant sounds. The results revealed inappropriate replacement of vowel and consonant in the medial and final positions in the spoken French of IUFLs.
References
Adebayo, Aduke. 1995. Modern european and nigerian languages in contact: Journal of
Linguistics 1:67- 72, Ibadan.
Adéléye, O.A. 1992. Fonólójì yorùbá- isàn, Long-Essay, University of Ìlorin,
Adetugbo, A. 1967. The yoruba language in western Nigeria: its major dialect areas. Thesis,
University of Columbia, Ann Arbor University Microfilms.
Ajólóre, O. 1974. Learning to the yorùbá focus sentences in a multilingual setting. Diss, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaigne.
Blevins, J. 2004. Evolutionary phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Francis, W.N. 1989. Dialectology: an introduction. New York: Longman
Jaeger, A., Jean-Philippe Goldman & Uli Frauenfelder. 2001.
Liaison and schwa deletion in french: an effect of lexical frequency and competition? Proceedings of Eurospeech 2001 ed. by Paul Dasgaard, Børge Lindberg, Henrik Benner & Zheng-hua Tan. 639-642. Aalborg, Denmark: Aalborg University.
Klausenburger, Jurgen. 1977. Deletion vs epenthesis: intra- vs interparadigmatic arguments in
linguistics: Lingua 42. 153-160.
Labov, W. 1963. The social motivation of a sound change. Word 19, 273-309.
Labov, W. 1966. The social stratification of english in New York city. Washington, D. C: Centre for Applied Linguistics.
Labov, W. 1972. Sociolinguistic patterns. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Labov, W. 1978. Sociolinguistics. In W. O. Dingwall (ed.), A Survey of linguistic science.
Stamford/Connecticut: Greylock Publishers, 339 – 375.
Labov, W. 1994. Principles of linguistic change. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Milroy, J. 1978. Lexical alternation and diffusion in vernacular speech. Belfast Working Papers in Language and Linguistics 3:101-14. Pp. 155, 168, 169
Milroy, J. & L. 1978. Belfast: change and variation in an urban vernacular. In Trudgill. 1978:19-36. Pp. 155, 156, 160, 180
Milroy, L. 1976. Phonological correlates to community structure in Belfast. Belfast Working Papers in Language and Linguistics 1:1-44. p. 155
Milroy, L. & Margrain, S. 1978. Vernacular language loyalty and social network. Belfast Working Papers in Language and Linguistics 3: 1-58. pp. 155, 178, 184
Oyèbádé, F.O. 1988. The role of the child in the acquisition of yoruba communicative competence. ODU: A Journal of West African Studies. 34.
Oyèbádé, F.O. 1988. Issues in the analysis of yoruba tone. Thesis, Lagos Papers in English Studies Vol. 1: 200-214 (2007) July – 2007 214 University of London.
Oyèbádé, F.O. 1990. Tones in the yoruba personal praise names: oríkì àbíso. A paper presented at the Department of African Languages and Literatures Seminar Series. 19th March.
Oyèbádé, F.O. 1990. Language acquisition: the phonology of a yorùbá child. Research in African
Languages and Linguistics. Vol. 1, 1, 17-34.
Oyèbádé, F.O.. 1998. A course in phonology. Ijebu Ode: Shebiotimo Publications.
Richards, J. C. 1974. Error analysis: perspectives on second language acquisition. Longman Press, pp. 34–36.
Roca, Iggy & Wyn Johnson. 1999. A course in phonology. Oxford: Blackwell. Section 4.7 & chapter 14
Rodgers, J. E. J. 1996. Vowel deletion/devoicing. In A. P. Simpson and M. P¨atzold (Eds.), Sound Patterns of Connected Speech: Description, Models, and Explanation, AIPUK 31, pp. 211–218.
Rodgers, K. J. Kohler & P. Helgason, 1997. Segment deletion in the kiel corpus of spontaneous speech. In A. P. Simpson, K. J.
Kohler, and T. Rettstadt (Eds.), The Kiel Corpus of Read/Spontaneous Speech — Acoustic data base, processing tools and analysis results, AIPUK 32, pp. 127–176.
Schane, Sanford A. 1968. French phonology and morphology. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
