A Language Synopsis of Rivers Pidgin EnglishDepartment of Linguistics and African Languages, Faculty of Humanities, University of Port Harcourt, 1983 - Pidgin English - 44 pages |
Common terms and phrases
Adjectives Adverbials allophones basic vocabulary bèle búk carries high tone compound compound-expression dát decreolized deleted Delta DEVOICED Dís Disyllabic divided into stress dón due to stress ENG)(ST Examples fáda falling tone fáyn gét gliding tone groups and stress gúd háws high toned word high-toned ideophone Igbo inserted kári Krio Long vowels Low-High Low-Toned Words mán marker nasal consonants Nicholas Faraclas Nigerian languages Nigerian Pidgin English noun phrase Ola Rotimi person Phonemic Consonants Phonemic Vowel phonological pikín plosives tend plural poloki Port Harcourt pút reduplication Rivers Pidgin English ród serial verb constructions sidón sophisticated lady Standard English stress group stress is assigned stress is distributed subj suffix syll syllabic nasals SYSTEM OF RIVERS ték tone due úsú VELAR voiceless plosives vomit vowel harmony wán word finally word order Word-final wota yéstadé