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ERIC ED382004: Linguistic Assimilation of Westerners Living in the Yoruba Area of Nigeria.

This study investigated the strategies used by westerners, particularly American, Canadians, and Britons, to assimilate linguistically with the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria. The report begins with a brief chronicling of the history of colonialism and English usage in Nigeria. The study is then described. Based on observation of interactions between westerners and Yorubas, a list of 58 commonly-used terms and expressions in Yoruba, British English, Nigerian, and pidgin was compiled. Using this, a survey instrument was constructed to determine patterns of usage, attitudes, and stages of…

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Source	Internet Archive
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	ERIC
Date	1994-05-01
Type	texts
Details	ia title
Found at	https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED382004
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Record ID	`internet-archive:ERIC_ED382004`

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ERIC ED382004: Linguistic Assimilation of Westerners Living in the Yoruba Area of Nigeria.. Internet Archive, 1994. Vero Archive, record internet-archive:ERIC_ED382004.