Ozon, G. orcid.org/0000-0003-0888-1933, Ayafor, M., Green, M. et al. (1 more author) (2017) The spoken corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English. World Englishes, 36 (3). pp. 427-447. ISSN 0883-2919
Abstract
This article reports on the construction of a 240,000-word pilot corpus of spoken Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE), a widely-used yet stigmatised and largely uncodified written pidgin/creole variety. The corpus consists of private and public dialogues and monologues, with mark-up and POS-tagging. Text categories and the proportions of monologue and dialogue are guided by those of the International Corpus of English project, which makes the corpus immediately comparable with existing corpora of post-colonial varieties of English. We discuss the extent to which this corpus can be regarded as an ICE component, and illustrate the relation between CPE and standardised Nigerian and Cameroonian varieties of English in Africa by means of case studies employing ICE-NIGERIA and the Corpus of Cameroon English.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in World Englishes. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number British Academy SG140663 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 26 Oct 2016 13:27 |
Last Modified: | 14 Jul 2020 11:15 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12280 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/weng.12280 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:106157 |