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A Companion to Baugh and Cable's History of the English Language ,3rd edition

Author: Cable Thomas

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG204

Topics: sounds of english, phonetic symbols, vocal tract, english consonants, english vowels, transcription, Indo-European family, Indo-Europeans, Old English, old English consonants, old english vowels, Old English suprasegmentals, Old English cases, Old English nouns, Old English adjectives, Old English pronouns, Old English strong verbs, Old English syntax, Scandinavian loanwords, Norman conquest, middle English, Chaucer's pronounciation, Middle english nouns, Middle english adjectives, Middle english personal pronouns, Middle english verbal inflections, Middle english dialects, self-explaining compounds, coinages, slangmpidgins, Creoles, American dialect, African American Vernacular English

Contemporary English usage

Author: Anthony Oha

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG321

Topics: Contemporary English usage, English Language, British English Varieties, American English Structure, Australian English Varieties, New Zealand English Varieties, Contemporary Nigerian English, popular Nigerian English, Contemporary English Writing, English speech form, Formal English language style, informal English style, Linguistic Meaning, Speaker Meaning, Business English, Business Writing, Internet English, Web Writing, Old English, modern English

English Language in Nigeria

Author: Mfon Brownson Ekpe

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG353

Topics: English Language, English Language promotion, functions of English Language in Nigeria, Sociolinguistic Consequences of English in Nigeria, Classification of English Language in Nigeria, Nigerian English Debate, English Nativisation, English Phonological Features, English Grammatical Features, English Lexico-Semantic Features, English Discourse Features, Standard Nigerian English, Non-Standard Nigerian English, Nigerian Pidgin English, Language planning

The Phonology of English

Author: Demola Jolayemi

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG341

Topics: English phonology, phonetics, phonology, English vowels, English Monophthongs, English Diphthongs, English triphthongs, English consonants, plosives, affricates, fricatives, English Sound Change, English phonemes, generative phonology, Distinctive features Matrix, syllable structure, syllable strength, English phonotactics, English stress, English intonation, Articulatory Phonetics, Acoustic Phonetics, Auditory Phonetics, Segmental Phonemes, Pure Vowel Numbers, Closing Diphthongs, Centering Diphthongs, Bilabial Plosive, Alveolar Plosive, velar plosive, Glottal Plosive, Affricate Sounds, Palato-alveolar Affricate, Labio-dental Fricative, Dental Fricative, Alveolar Fricatives, Palato-alveolar Fricatives, Glottal Fricative, Nasal Sounds, English Minimal Pairs, English Allophones, Phonetic Representation, Phonological Rules, Sonorant

International English ,6th edition

Author: Peter Trudgill, Jean Hannah

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG409

Topics: International English, Standard English, English, Australasian English, South African English, Welsh English, north American English, Scottish English, Irish English, west Indian English, English-based creoles, Lesser-known Englishes

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language ,3rd edition

Author: David Crystal

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG409

Topics: History of English, Old English, middle English, early modern English, Modern English, World English, English vocabulary, Lexicon, etymology, lexical dimensions, English grammar, grammatical mythology, structure of words, word classes, structure of sentences, spoken English, written English, using English

The English Language(Yesterday and Today)

Author: Dele Adeyanju

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG204

Topics: English LanguageLanguage Families, Indo-European Languages, Roman Invasion, Anglo Saxon Invasion, Scandinavian Invasion, Norman conquest, Re-Establishment of English, Old English, Old English Morphology, Old English syntax, Middle English, Early Modern English, Varieties of English, English Language Today, English language speakers

English Phonetics and Phonology, 2nd edition

Author: Philip Carr

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: EBG141

Topics: English Phonetics, English Phonology, Consonants, Airstream, Articulation, Secondary Articulation, Affricates, Nasal Stops, vowels, Primary Cardinal Vowels, short vowels, Long Vowels, Diphthongs, Phonemic Principle, Linguistic Knowledge, phoneme, Allophones, English Phonemes, English Consonant Phonemes, English Vowel Phonemes, English Syllable Structure, Language-Specific Phonotactics, Syllabic Consonants, Phonotactics, Syllable-Based Generalizations, Morphological Structure, Syllable Structure, Resyllabification, English Word Stress, Compound Words, English Intonation, Tonic Syllables, Tones, Intonation Phrases, Tonic Placement, Graphophonemics, Spelling–Pronunciation Relations, Vowel Graphemes, Consonant Graphemes, English accent variation, British Accents, Southern Hemisphere Accents, American Accents, Sound Recordings

Gimson's Pronunciation of English ,8th edition

Author: Alan Cruttenden

School: Federal University, Oye-Ekiti

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ELS101

Topics: English Pronunciation, language, linguistics, speech mechanism, speech production, speech chain, Sound qua1ity, sounds of speech, Phonetic description, vowel, consonant, Egressive pulmonic consonants, vowels, phonemes, Allophones, Phonemic systems, sound change, Old English, Middle English, Early Modem English, Diphthongs, English vowels, vowel length, English consonants, Plosives, Affricates, Fricatives, Sonorants, nasals, words, connected speech, accent, Phonotactics, Intonation, Amalgam English, International English, Pronouncing dictionaries

English History, Diversity and Change

Author: David Graddol, Dick Leith, Joan Swann

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG409

Topics: English History, English Diversity, English voices, English manuscripts, English Accent, English grammar variation, style shifting, code shifting, Good English, Bad English

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